TY - ADVS AU - Bennett,Rodney AU - Messina,Cedric AU - Jacobi,Derek AU - Bloom,Claire AU - Porter,Eric AU - Stewart,Patrick AU - Allen,Patrick AU - James,Emrys AU - Shakespeare,William ED - British Broadcasting Corporation TI - Hamlet (Bennett) [dvd] AV - PR2754 .B86 2000 U1 - 822.33 PY - 1980/// CY - London PB - BBC KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Hamlet (Legendary character) KW - Drama KW - Revenge KW - Television plays KW - English drama (Tragedy) KW - Television adaptations N1 - Originally broadcast on the BBC series The Shakespeare plays 25 May 1980; Credits: Senior cameraman, Jim Atkinson ; incidental music composed and conducted by Dudley Simpson ; videotape editor, David Hillier; Cast: Derek Jacobi (Hamlet), Claire Bloom (Gertrude), Patrick Stewart (Claudius), Eric Porter (Polonius), Lalla Ward (Ophelia), David Robb (Laertes), Patrick Allen (Ghost of Hamlet's Father), Robert Swann (Horatio), Jonathan Hyde (Rosencrantz), Geoffrey Bateman (Guildenstern), Emrys James (First Player (King)), Jason Kemp (Second Player (Queen)), Geoffrey Beevers (Third Player (Lucianus)), Bill Homewood (Player in the mime, King), Peter Richards (Player in the mime, Queen), Terence McGinity (Player in the mime, Murderer), Peter Burroughs (Player), Stuart Fell (Player), Ian Charleson (Fortinbras), Tim Wylton (First Gravedigger), Peter Benson (Second Gravedigger), Paul Humpoletz (Marcellus), Niall Padden (Bernardo), Christopher Baines (Francisco), John Humphry (Voltemand), John Sterland (Cornelius), Peter Gale (Osric), Raymond Mason (Reynaldo), Dan Meaden (Norwegian Captain), Iain Blair (Sailor), Reginald Jessup (Messenger), Michael Poole (Priest), David Henry (English Ambassador); UK cert. U N2 - A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death ER -