"Hamlet" on television: interfaces between stage and screen

• Autor(a) principal: Gregório, Paulo da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/55196
• topic: Shakespeare; Hamlet; Intermedialidade; Remediação; Adaptação; Shakespeare; Hamlet; Intermediality; Remediation; Adaptation

Many British productions of Shakespeare’s plays for television have been adapted from stage performances. These stage-to-small-screen adaptations combine theatrical, televisual and cinematic elements in order to reinvent the performances meaningfully on the small screen. This article examines distinctive features of this specific genre of Shakespearean adaptation. Looking at Gregory Doran’s television adaptation of his stage production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company (2008), I will discuss the mechanisms of intermediality and the processes of remediation on which it is grounded. Instead of being simply a record of the stage performance, this adaptation is a hybrid form that not only complicates traditional distinctions between theatre and television, but also challenges assumptions that stage-to-small-screen adaptations are secondary and derivative.