Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet
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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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Plays
- Channel: BBC One
- Duration: 2'49'00''
- Broadcast date: 1964
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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.'
Imagine... | Being Hamlet
Alan Yentob follows Welsh actor Wayne Cater and three other Hamlet hopefuls as they prepare for a Shakespeare role that has become a rite of passage for all who have taken it on. With advice and support from ex-Hamlets Ralph Fiennes, Derek Jacobi, David Warner, Jonathan Pryce and Simon Russell Beale.