Films and Adaptations
Svend Gade. Hamlet. (1920)

Laurence Olivier. Hamlet. (1948)

Grigorii Kozintsev. Hamlet. (1964)

John Gielgud. Hamlet. (1964) ["electronovision" version of 1964 stage production]

Tony Richardson. Hamlet. (1969)

Ragnar Lyth. Hamlet. (1982)

Kenneth Branagh. Hamlet. (1996)

Franco Zeffirelli. Hamlet. (1990)
Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. (1990)

Michael Almereyda. Hamlet. (2000)

Criticism

Adelman, Janet. "Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body." Hamlet. Boston, MA: St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp. 241-82. ISBN: 9780312055448.

Anderegg, Michael. “Branagh and the Sons of Ken.” Cinematic Shakespeare. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 118-147.

Barker, Francis. The Tremulous Private Body. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995 [1984]. Ch. On Hamlet. ISBN: 9780472065523.

Cartmell, Deborah. “Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 212-221.

Coursen, H. R. “Alas, Poor Yorick!” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 57-69.

---. “Closure in Hamlet.” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 113-125.

---. “Gertrude’s Story.” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 70-79.

---. “Playing Space: The Kline Hamlet.” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 80-92.

---. “Three Televised Hamlets.” Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews. Eds. J. C. Bulman and H. R. Coursen. Hanover: University of New England, 1988. 101-106.

Crowl, Samuel. “A Clean, Well-Spoken Place: Branagh’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 135-154.

---. “Flamboyant Realist: Kenneth Branagh.” Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen. Athens: Ohio UP, 1992. 222-240.

---. “The Golden Girl and a Fistful of Dust: Zeffirelli’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 47-63.

---. “The Long Decade: 1989-2001.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 1-24.

---. “The Prince of Manhattan: Almereyda’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 187-202.

---. “The Words of Mercury and the Songs of Apollo: Branagh’s Journey from Henry V to Love’s Labor’s Lost.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 25-46.

Deitchman, Elizabeth A. “From the Cinema to the Classroom: Hollywood Teaches Hamlet.” Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Eds. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemount Publishing and Printing Corp., 2002. 172-186.

Donaldson, Peter S. “Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video, Art, Authenticity, and “Wisdom” in Almereyda’s Hamlet.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. 216-237.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691058733.

Gunter, Lawrence. “Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear on Film.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 117-134.

Hatchuel, Sarah. “Case Studies (Hamlet, Richard III, Othello, Julius Cesar, Henry V).” Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 152-176.

---. “Screenplay, Narration, and Subtext: The Example of Hamlet.” Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 127-151.

Henderson, Diana E. “The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. 77-95.

Jones, Ernest. Hamlet and Oedipus. London, UK: Victor Gollacz, 1947. ASIN: B0007JPZI6.

Jorgens, Jack J. “Grigori Kozintev’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 218-234.

---. “Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 207-217.

Keyishian, Harry. “Shakespeare and the Movie Genre: The Case of Hamlet.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 72-84.

Knight, G. Wilson. "The Embassy of Death." In The Wheel of Fire. New York, NY: Routledge, 1930, repr. 2001. ISBN: 9780415253956.

Lanier, Douglas. “‘Art thou base, common, and popular?’: The Cultural Politics of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet.” Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Eds. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemount Publishing and Printing Corp., 2002. 149-171.

Lehmann. Courtney. “The Machine in the Ghost: Hamlet’s Cinematographic Kingdom.” Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002. 89-129.

Manvell, Roger. “Laurence Olivier and the Filming of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 37-54.

---. “The Italians and Shakespeare: Castellani and Zeffirelli.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 97-100.

---. “The Russian Adaptations: Yutkevitch and Kozintev.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 72-85.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. “Hamlet in Silence: Reinventing the Prince on Celluloid.” The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Eds. Lisa S. Sparks and Courtney Lehmann. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., 2002. 25-42.

---. (1999). “Shakespeare in Love, in Love with Shakespeare: The Adoration after the Millenium.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 248-274. (incl. brief discussions of Shakespeare in Love, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus)

---. (1999). “Spectacle and Song in Castellani and Zeffirelli.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 119-135.

Rowe, Katherine. “‘Remember Me’: Technologies of Memory in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 37-55.

Shaughnessy, Robert. “Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. 54-76.

Sokolyansky, Mark. “Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet and King Lear.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 199-211.

Weimann, Robert. "Performance and Authority in Hamlet (1603)." In Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital. Edited by Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2000, pp. 52-63. ISBN: 9780312222710.