theatre interetations hamlet Flashcards

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david garricks hamlet

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‘completely overcome with tears of grief’

1740s

First time play was revised

Gertrude lives on

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AYLIFFS 1925 ophelia

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Polonius is a dominant father

Ophelia is secually explosive

Result of suppresion of her desires and controlling men

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oliviers hamlet

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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

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Hamlet 2000

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

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Paapa Essidou

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*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

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Robert Ickes 2022 broadway hamlet

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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.

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Hazlitts Hamlet

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Considered Hamlet ill suited for performance

Hamlet is ’wrapped up in his own reflections’

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Irvings Hamlet

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

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Tennants Hamlet

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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

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