Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant will portray Claudius and Hamlet in a BBC production of Shakespeare’s play to be shown on PBS’ Great Performances tomorrow night and online afterward. Watch a trailer for it on the Great Performances site.
Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant will portray Claudius and Hamlet in a BBC production of Shakespeare’s play to be shown on PBS’ Great Performances tomorrow night and online afterward. Watch a trailer for it on the Great Performances site.
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Ooo, interesting! Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
A couple months ago I watched Patrick Stewart in an ‘old’ BBC production of Hamlet (with D. Jacobi as Hamlet) so it’s odd to see him in this modernist version.
– I don’t like these modernist versions; it’s like seeing biblical figures painted as Venetians or people from 17th century Holland… only much worse.
– your post reminded me there was an an essay by CS Lewis on Hamlet; so I dug it out and I read it. I almost always get a great deal from a Lewis essay… and this is a great one. (Hamlet; the prince or the poem?)
I’ll let you know what I think after I watch in online. Where did you read the Lewis essay?
It’s in a collection called ‘Selected Literary essays’ and I think in another collection as well.