Fortinbras - Screen Adaptations

Screen Adaptations

As Hamlet, with a running time in the range of four hours, is seldom performed in its entirety, the role of Fortinbras is sometimes omitted, as it was in the 1948 film starring Laurence Olivier, in the 1969 film starring Nicol Williamson, and the 1990 film starring Mel Gibson. He was included, however, in the 1964 Broadway revival, which was later filmed as Richard Burton's Hamlet, in the 1980 BBC Shakespeare television production starring Derek Jacobi, in the 1996 film starring Kenneth Branagh and the 2000 film starring Ethan Hawke, although in the 2000 film, he is an enemy of business. In these films he was played by Michael Ebert, Ian Charleson, Rufus Sewell and Casey Affleck, respectively.

Fortinbras also appears in the 1964 BBC television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer, and here he was played by Donald Sutherland, in what was his first important role.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters	Hamlet Claudius Gertrude Ghost Polonius Laertes Ophelia Horatio Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Fortinbras The Gravediggers Yorick

Soliloquies	"To be, or not to be" "What a piece of work is a man" "Speak the speech"

Sources & criticism	Legend of Hamlet The Spanish Tragedy Ur-Hamlet Critical approaches Bibliographies

Influence	Common phrases from Hamlet References to Hamlet References to Ophelia

Performances	Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912) Richard Burton's (1964)

On screen	1900 film 1908 film 1921 film 1948 film 1964 film 1969 film 1990 film 1996 film 2000 film 2009 television film

Adaptations	Hamlet (opera) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rockabye Hamlet Hamletmachine The Lion King Let the Devil Wear Black Hamlet 2 The Banquet The Bad Sleep Well Sons of Anarchy

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