Hamlet: The Poisoned Kingdom

Duration: 33

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Coun for a TV Course in the Humanit

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Pursues a search for the pattern behind each of the three poisoning episodes which come as a climax to each of the three movements of the play. Describes Elizabethans' attitude about government in which power came down from God through the king, and relates this to the spiritual poisoning of Denmark by Claudius which infects the state and kills his court. The personality of each main character is studied in selected dramatizations., Shakespeare

Complete Record: Pursues a search for the pattern behind each of the three poisoning episodes which come as a climax to each of the three movements of the play. Describes Elizabethans' attitude about government in which power came down from God through the king, and relates this to the spiritual poisoning of Denmark by Claudius which infects the state and kills his court. The personality of each main character is studied in selected dramatizations., ShakespeareNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.