I am doing a research paper on Hamlet and its affects on the 20th century. Do any of you know of movies or films that relate to Hamlet?

-- Megan Flannery (thespi12@aol.com), November 25, 2000

Answers

Branagh's own "In the Bleak Midwinter". Alternative title is "A Midwinter's Tale". I haven't seen it, but I understand it's about a group of unemployed actors who put on a lousy production of Hamlet in Winter, and how the actors' lives mirror those of the characters in HAMLET. Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". HAMLET retold from R and G's viewpoint by 20th century playwr

-- catherine england (catherineamer@hotmail.com), October 03, 2001.