The Hamlet connection continues to be the biggest draw, with performances adding to the castle’s appeal. In 1816, amateur actors performed Hamlet for the first time at Kronborg to commemorate ...

Gestures and rhetorical pauses were very important. Actors playing Hamlet focused on the art of the performance rather than the representation of the man. David Garrick had a hydraulic wig created ...

Dr Nick Walton from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust talks about the history of Hamlet in performance on the RSC stage. Scroll down for an extended transcript. In 1965 Peter Hall cast 24 year old ...

Michael Caine as Horatio and Christopher Plummer as Hamlet. The BBC marked the four hundred year anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth with an ambitious production, Hamlet at Elsinore, shown on 19 ...