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The BBC Television Shakespeare
Season 1 · Episode 12
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
0.03h 34mMay 25, 1980
Hamlet returns home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to avenge his murder. Hamlet complies, but his madness and indecision take their toll on everyone.
Episodes
- Episode 1Romeo & Juliet
- Episode 2King Richard the Second
- Episode 3As You Like It
- Episode 4Julius Caesar
- Episode 5Measure for Measure
- Episode 6The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight
- Episode 7The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
- Episode 8The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
- Episode 9The Life of Henry the Fifth
- Episode 10Twelfth Night
- Episode 11The Tempest
- Episode 12Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Episode 13The Taming of the Shrew
- Episode 14The Merchant of Venice
- Episode 15All's Well That Ends Well
- Episode 16The Winter's Tale
- Episode 17Timon of Athens
- Episode 18Antony and Cleopatra
- Episode 19Othello
- Episode 20Troilus and Cressida
- Episode 21A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Episode 22King Lear
- Episode 23The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Episode 24The First Part of Henry the Sixth
- Episode 25The Second Part of Henry the Sixth
- Episode 26The Third Part of Henry the Sixth
- Episode 27The Tragedy of Richard III
- Episode 28Cymbeline
- Episode 29Macbeth
- Episode 30The Comedy of Errors
- Episode 31The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Episode 32The Tragedy of Coriolanus
- Episode 33The Life & Death of King John
- Episode 34Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Episode 35Much Ado About Nothing
- Episode 36Love's Labour's Lost
- Episode 37Titus Andronicus