Hamlet (Ep. 125)

Adapt or Perish

With Episode 125 of Adapt or Perish, it's time for us to revisit the Bard and take a look at William Shakespeare's greatest theater kid antagonist, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark!

In this episode, we discuss:

• William Shakespeare's original play, most likely written between 1599 and 1601
• The 1948 theatrical movie directed and adapted by Laurence Olivier, and starring Olivier, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons, and Peter Cushing
• The 1964 stage production directed by John Gielgud, and starring Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, John Cullum, and the voice of Gielgud
• Hamlet at Elsinore, the 1964 TV movie directed by Philip Saville, and starring Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Michael Caine, June Tobin, and Donald Sutherland
• The 1969 theatrical movie directed and adapted by Tony Richardson, and starring Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, and Mark Dignam
• The 1970 TV movie directed by Peter Wood, adapted by John Barton, and starring Richard Chamberlain, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Leighton, Richard Johnson, and John Gielgud
• The 1980 TV movie (and part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series) directed by Rodney Bennett, and starring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter, Lalla Ward, and David Robb
• The 1990 theatrical movie directed by Franco Zeffirelli, written by Zeffirelli and Christopher De Vore, and starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, and Helena Bonham Carter
• The 1996 theatrical movie written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Richard Briers, Kate Winslet, Nicholas Farrell, Brian Blessed, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Robin Williams, and Billy Crystal
• The 2000 TV movie directed by Campbell Scott and Eric Simonson, adapted by Simonson, and starring Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan, Roscoe Lee Browne, John Benjamin Hickey, Michael Imperioli, LisaGay Hamilton
• The 2000 theatrical movie written and directed by Michael Almereyda, and starring Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora, Sam Shepard, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, and Bill Murray
• The 2009 TV movie directed by Gregory Doran, and starring David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Mariah Gale, Edward Bennett, and Oliver Ford Davies

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 34: Romeo and Juliet
• The only copy of the 1970 TV movie that we could find
• In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) (released in the US as A Midwinter's Tale)
• Adapt or Perish Episode 28: Frankenstein

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