Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet

Part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2016 series, filmed live on stage in the bard's home of Stratford-upon Avon and broadcast worldwide in cinemas.

"Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy." (Royal Shakespeare Company)

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