theatre interetations hamlet

Question 1

david garricks hamlet

Answer 1

‘completely overcome with tears of grief’

1740s

First time play was revised

Gertrude lives on

Question 2

AYLIFFS 1925 ophelia

Answer 2

Polonius is a dominant father

Ophelia is secually explosive

Result of suppresion of her desires and controlling men

Question 3

oliviers hamlet

Answer 3

Imagined Hamlet as ’the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind’

Oedipal complex - hamlet cannot punish claudius as he has fulfilled his own desires

Question 4

Hamlet 2000

Answer 4

Records life on a camcorder and is surrounded by CCTV
Mousetrap is an avante garde film shown in a private cinema

Question 5

Paapa Essidou

Answer 5

*Hamlet holds a TIME magazine with Claudius on the cover
*Hamlet is isolated, and an outcast to the play
*R+G are only white actors bringing tourist gifts that highlight colonialism

Question 6

Robert Ickes 2022 broadway hamlet

Answer 6

During the play, the king and queen sit in the real theatre rows and are seen on screen to regain the feeling of metatheatre in staging.

King Hamlets broadcast on CNN style show to mimic our mediated world - audience recognize themselves.

Question 7

Hazlitts Hamlet

Answer 7

Considered Hamlet ill suited for performance

Hamlet is ’wrapped up in his own reflections’

Question 8

Irvings Hamlet

Answer 8

Ended with Hamlets ’the rest is silence’ giving him the last word

Question 9

Tennants Hamlet

Answer 9

Mirror like floor

Interval struck with Hamlet with a knife to Claudius

O+Hs relationship appears pre exisiting, an intimate expression of solidarity. . Ophelia is much more bitter