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from the unpublished 1996 DC Comics "Elseworlds:  The Tragedy of Batman, Prince of Denmark" by Steve Englehart