Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Writer
- William ShakespeareAuthor
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cast
Derek JacobiHamlet
Claire BloomGertrude
Patrick StewartClaudius
Eric PorterPolonius
Lalla WardOphelia
David RobbLaertes
Robert SwannHoratio- Patrick AllenGhost of Hamlet's Father
Emrys JamesPlayer King- Jason KempPlayer Queen
Geoffrey BeeversThird Player / Lucianus- Bill HomewoodPlayer King in the mime
- Peter RichardPlayer Queen in the mime
- Terence McGinityPlayer Lucianus in the mime
Peter BurroughsPlayer- Stuart FellPlayer
Ian CharlesonFortinbras
Tim WyltonFirst Gravedigger
Peter BensonSecond Gravedigger
Paul HumpoletzMarcellus
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