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Jude Law turns Hamlet into Broadway hit...his past roles and bad-boy melodramas''. The Michael Grandage-directed production of Hamlet arrived at New York's Broadhurst Theatre in October following stints in London and Denmark's Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, the setting of the play. In this article: Broadway, Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Jude Law, New York, Michael Grandage, Ben Brantley, and Elsinore |
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National Post | October 23, 2009
On DVD: Done with touches of madness & genius
When he left in mid-series to make an American film called Ice Station Zebra, he told one of the writers to create a script that featured neither him nor The Village, a task the man compares to writing Hamlet without the Prince or Denmark. A...
In this article: Patrick McGoohan, DVD, The Village, Derren Nesbitt, The Prisoner, Blancmange, Blu-ray, and Ice Station Zebra
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thestar.com | November 15, 2009
Rand revels in his outrageous fortune
...like Dame Edna or Eric Idle. Meet the greatest of all Mad Men ... only like you've never seen him before. He's Hamlet, a.k.a. Prince of Denmark, a.k.a. The Melancholy Dane. The role that's every actor's dream and nightmare at the same...
In this article: Russian roulette, Melancholy, Elsinore, and Edvard Munch
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Characters in Hamlet
...from Claudius for Fortinbras's army to be in Denmark. The sailors are two pirates who deliver a letter from Hamlet to Horatio, informing Horatio that Hamlet has returned to Denmark. They appear in the final scene to report that...
In this article: Claudius, King Hamlet, Fortinbras, Polonius, Ophelia, Laertes, and Horatio
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BBC News | October 07, 2009
Press views
...film star as they came to their conclusions. BEN BRANTLEY - NEW YORK TIMES If vigour were all in acting Shakespeare, Jude Law would be a gold medal Hamlet. Playing the doomed Prince of Denmark in a barnstorming production, Law...
In this article: Jude Law, William Shakespeare, Ophelia, William Hazlitt, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Grandage, and US
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San Jose Mercury News | September 17, 2009
Pac Rep mounts brilliant version of 'Hamlet'
...the new king. He and Queen Gertrude, portrayed with edgy lustiness, then abject terror by Julie Hughett, display their lascivious desires so wantonly, it leaves no question as to why Hamlet comes unglued about his mother. Chris Ayles...
In this article: Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Laertes, and Psychosis
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Law's Hamlet to move to Broadway
...Theatre cast from London. Hamlet will finish up in London on 22 August and then travel to Elsinore Castle in Denmark - where the play is set - for a short run of performances before heading to Broadway. Michael Grandage, artistic...
In this article: Broadway, Jude Law, London, New York, and Michael Grandage
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Computer World | September 18, 2009
To Kindle or not to Kindle?
...newsfeeds. Written by Sarah Schmelling, the piece imagined humorous status updates and activities "Hamlet" characters might have posted on Facebook, had there been such a thing in 14th-century Denmark. Some of the more cheeky...
In this article: Facebook, Ophelia, Granta, Penguin Books, London, and New York City
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Despite much literary detective work, the exact year of writing remains in dispute. Three different early versions of the play have survived: these are known as the First Quarto (Q1), the Second Quarto (Q2) and the First Folio (F1). Each has lines, and even scenes, that are missing from the others. Shakespeare probably based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum and subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest, and a supposedly lost Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet.
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