Hamlet at Elsinore

From conception to execution, the production took eight weeks and four days. This programme was recorded and edited on video tape (2" quadruplex). ==Reception==

Awards At the 18th Emmy Awards (1966), Christopher Plummer was nominated in the category of Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama for his performance as Hamlet. Steven Berkoff writes about his time as a junior cast member in his autobiography Free Association. Horatio is the only classical role played by Michael Caine, who had never received dramatic training. According to his 2011 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood, Caine had been released from his contract with producer Joseph E. Levine after the making of Zulu as Levine had told him, "I know you're not, but you gotta face the fact that you look like a queer on screen." Caine wrote, "I decided that if my on-screen appearance was going to be an issue, then I would use it to bring out all Horatio's ambiguous sexuality." == Releases ==

Broadcast Hamlet at Elsinore debuted in Canada, broadcast on CBC Television as a special episode of the anthology series Festival on . It was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC TV on , shortly before Shakespeare's 400th birthday, traditionally observed on Saint George's Day, the 23rd of April, despite his baptism on the 26th. Hamlet at Elsinore was intended by the BBC to be its major commemoration of the Shakespeare quatercentenary. It was broadcast in the United States on November 15, 1964. Afterwards, it was occasionally re-aired by National Educational Television. Clips of the programme are very rarely shown on television. Plummer himself expressed a wish for it to be commercially available. The full play was shown in the UK on BBC Four on , along with a 15 minute programme with Steven Berkoff relating his experiences working on the production. Home releases It was released on Region 1 DVD by the BBC and Warner on . The restored video was first shown in the U.S. at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival. The DVD contains a 90-minute feature with Christopher Plummer, recorded at the festival. == See also ==