Hamlet: Difference between revisions

In May 2009, ''Hamlet'' opened with [[Jude Law]] in the title role at the [[Donmar Warehouse]] West End season at [[Wyndham's Theatre]]. The production officially opened on 3 June and ran through 22 August 2009.<ref name=ShentonStage>Mark Shenton, [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18174/jude-law-to-star-in-donmars-hamlet "Jude Law to Star in Donmar's Hamlet."] ''The Stage''. 10 September 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.</ref><ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/article/Cook_Eyre_Lee_And_More_Join_Jude_Law_In_Grandages_HAMLET_20090204 "Cook, Eyre, Lee And More Join Jude Law In Grandage's HAMLET."] broadwayworld.com. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.</ref> A further production of the play ran at [[Elsinore Castle]] in Denmark from 25–30 August 2009.<ref>[http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/3am/2009/07/10/it-s-the-highest-accolade-for-115875-21508571/ "Jude Law to play Hamlet at 'home' Kronborg Castle."] ''[[Daily Mirror|The Daily Mirror]]''. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.</ref> The Jude Law ''Hamlet'' then moved to Broadway, and ran for 12 weeks at the [[Broadhurst Theatre]] in New York.<ref>[http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10641 "Shakespeare's Hamlet with Jude Law".] ''[[Charlie Rose (talk show)|Charlie Rose Show]]''. video 53:55, 2 October 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2009.</ref><ref>Dave Itzkoff, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/donmar-warehouses-hamlet-coming-to-broadway-with-jude-law/ "Donmar Warehouse's 'Hamlet' Coming to Broadway With Jude Law."] ''[[New York Times]]''. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2009.</ref>

 

[[File:Bernhardt Hamlet2.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Sarah Bernhardt]] as Hamlet, with [[Yorick]]'s skull (Photographer: [[James Lafayette]], c.&nbsp;1885–1900)]]

{{Main|Hamlet on screen}}

The earliest screen success for ''Hamlet'' was [[Sarah Bernhardt]]'s five-minute film of the fencing scene,<ref>''The Fencing Scene'': ''Hamlet'' 5.2.203–387.</ref> produced in 1900. The film was a crude [[Sound film|talkie]], in that music and words were recorded on phonograph records, to be played along with the film.<ref name="Brode 117">Brode (2001, 117–118).</ref> Silent versions were released in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1913, 1917, and 1920.<ref name="Brode 117" /> In the 1920 version, [[Asta Nielsen]] played Hamlet as a woman who spends her life disguised as a man.<ref name="Brode 117" />

 

 

Shakespeare experts Sir [[John Gielgud]] and [[Kenneth Branagh]] consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale<ref>{{cite news | url = http://movies.nytimes.com/person/66625/Innokenti-Smoktunovsky/biography | title = Innokenti Smoktunovsky – Biography – Movies & TV |publisher=Movies.nytimes.com |accessdate=29 May 2010}}</ref> to be the 1964 Russian film ''[[Hamlet (1964 film)|Gamlet]]'' ({{lang-ru|link=no|''Гамлет''}}) based on a translation by [[Boris Pasternak]] and directed by [[Grigori Kozintsev]], with a score by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]].<ref>Guntner (2000, 120–121).</ref> [[Innokenty Smoktunovsky]] was cast in the role of Hamlet; he was particularly praised by Sir [[Laurence Olivier]].