Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2020
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
Summary
This article considers the impact of celebrity on productions of Hamlet. It does so through reference to the Hamlets of David Tennant (2008), Jude Law (2009), Benedict Cumberbatch (2015), and Andrew Scott (2017), and aims to analyse how textual choices, staging and marketing are influenced by a new target audience.
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- Shakespeare Survey 73Shakespeare and the City, pp. 184 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020