Friday, October 10, 2014

HALLOWEEN WITH THE BARD: HAMLET'S DAD

HALLOWEEN IS ALL-PERVASIVE HERE THIS MONTH.  Hey, it even infiltrates the works of William Shakespeare now and anon.  Exhibit A:  The ghost of Hamlet's father.  Murdered by Hamlet's uncle who has taken the throne for himself, the ghost appears to Hamlet and desires revenge.  Here are some of the Pop's appearances throughout the years:

engraving by T.R. Gould
 
from the 1948 Laurence Olivier film
 
 by Faxtar
 
by Henry Fuseli
 
by Sir John Gilbert
 
by Robert Dudley
 
by William Blake
 
by Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg
 
an opera poster from 1868
 
by John Millar Watt
 
by Johann Heinrich
 
prisoner of war camp production starring Michael Goodliffe as Hamlet in Tittmoning, Germany
 
from Classics Illustrated #99
 
Patrick Stewart from the RSC BBC TV production starring David Tennant
 
by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
 
a 19th century engraving by "Reid"
 
from the 1996 Kenneth Branagh film
 
paper dolls by David Claudon
 
by J. Coghlan
 

from Hamlet:  The Comic Song
 
by John Absolon
 
by Donald Langosy
 
from the 1964 Soviet film by Grigori Kozintsev
 
from HBO's Shakespeare's Animated Tales
 
 
from the unpublished 1996 DC Comics "Elseworlds:  The Tragedy of Batman, Prince of Denmark" by Steve Englehart
 

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