Hyperion to a Satyr – The Fire and Water Podcast Network’s Hamlet Podcast – completes Siskoid’s scene-by-scene deep dive into Shakespeare’s masterwork, discussing the text, but also performance and staging through the lens of several films, television, comics and even a rock opera. In Act 5, Scene 2, Part 2, the tragedy resolves itself in a number of deaths.
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Credits:
Theme: “Fanfare” from 1996 Hamlet, by Patrick Doyle, with a clip from that film, starring Ray Fearon; the 1980 Hamlet, starring Derek Jacobi; and the 1996 Hamlet, starring Kenneth Branagh.
Bonus clips: Hamlet 1996 by Kenneth Branagh, starring Derek Jacobi, Nicholas Farrel, and Julie Christie; Hamlet 1948 by Laurence Olivier, starring Laurence Olivier; Hamlet 1980 by Rodney Bennett, starring Patrick Stewart and Derek Jacobi; Hamlet 1990 by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Stephen Dillane; Hamlet 2000 by Michael Almereyda, starring Liev Schreiber and Robert MacNeil; Hamlet 2007 by Alexander Fodor, starring Katie Reddin-Clancy; “She’ll Never Know” by Marillion; Hamlet 2009 by Gregory Doran, starring Patrick Stewart; In a Bleak Midwinter by Kenneth Branagh, starring Michael Maloney; and “Le duel”, “La mort d’Hamlet” and “Le rideau tombe” by Johnny Hallyday.
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Sad to see this show nearing its end. As always great discussion on the different takes of the events.
For me, the Gertrude ‘does she know or not know’ question is one that first made me realize that staging/acting can impart very different meanings. I always think it’s an accidental death but her knowingly doing it (and that trying to hand Hamlet the cup in that one version) is such good stuff to chew on.
And forgive me confusing all the different takes but a question. The Patrick Stewart ‘shrugs and drinks cup, he’s gonna die anyways’ version – is this the same one were he is very demonstrative/dismissive of the Mousetrap, having had enough of Hamlet. That would go with a stronger Claudius.
Thanks again for great show.