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Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare

Hamlet

Duration: 2 hours, 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Sent by the ghost of his father to avenge his brutal death, Hamlet’s mission to expose the truth is a perilous journey of madness, murder and lost love. What will ultimately become of a young man sent to kill?

Paapa Essiedu plays Hamlet in Simon Godwin’s critically acclaimed 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Show less

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