
Hamlet
Ratings
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Production
BBC, Time-Life Television Productions
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Cast

Derek Jacobi
Hamlet

Claire Bloom
Gertrude

Patrick Stewart
Claudius

Eric Porter
Polonius

Lalla Ward
Ophelia

David Robb
Laertes

Robert Swann
Horatio
Patrick Allen
Ghost of Hamlet's Father

Emrys James
Player King
Jason Kemp
Player Queen

Geoffrey Beevers
Third Player / Lucianus
Bill Homewood
Player King in the mime
Peter Richard
Player Queen in the mime
Terence McGinity
Player Lucianus in the mime

Peter Burroughs
Player
Stuart Fell
Player

Ian Charleson
Fortinbras

Tim Wylton
First Gravedigger

Peter Benson
Second Gravedigger

Paul Humpoletz
Marcellus
Recommended

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
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