Plot
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
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Cast
Christopher Plummer
Hamlet
Robert Shaw
Claudius
June Tobin
Gertrude
Alec Clunes
Polonius
Jo Maxwell Muller
Ophelia
Michael Caine
Horatio
Dyson Lovell
Laertes
David Calderisi
Rosencrantz
Bill Wallis
Guildenstern
Philip Locke
Osric
Peter Prowse
Marcellus
Michael Goldie
Bernardo
Roy Kinnear
Gravedigger
Donald Sutherland
Fortinbras
Joby Blanshard
Captain
Charles Carson
Priest
Steven Berkoff
Lucianus
David Swift
Player King
Lindsay Kemp
Player Queen
William Hobbs
Prologue
