As the embodiment of indecision, Nicol Williamson shines in the role of Shakespeare's tortured, half-mad Danish prince in Tony Richardson's spare yet severe adaptation of his successful stage production. Expanding the subtext of this classic tragedy by dint of a judiciously trimmed script derived from the Second Quarto, Richardson's brief allusion to incest confounded the expectations of those intimate with the play and especially its famed flirtation with familial dalliances.
Directed by Tony Richardson
Starring Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Gordon Jackson, Michael Pennington, Ben Aris, Clive Graham