Crackerjack | 06/01/1978
Hamlet
A children's entertainment programme presented by Ed Stewart. This episode includes a sketch in which the cast spoof Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy and sing ‘No Wonder Shakespeare Never Gets A Laugh’.
TweetLicence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Entertainment, Plays
- Channel: BBC One
- Duration: 41'45''
- Broadcast date: 1978
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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Hamlet at Elsinore
A BBC/ Danish Television co-production of Shakespeare's famous tragedy which was staged in the setting where the events of the play actually take place - Denmark's Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. It was the first time that a full-length play had been taped on location, it was filmed using outside broadcast cameras and was broadcast a few days before Shakespeare's 400th birthday.
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Blackadder the Third | Sense and Senility
Actors Keanrick and Mossop rehearse their Shakespearean-style play 'The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife.'