Who plays the primary antagonist in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Hamlet?
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Hamlet (1996 film) Hamlet is a 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the titular role as Prince Hamlet. The film also features Derek Jacobi as King Claudius, Julie Christie as Queen Gertrude, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Michael Maloney as Laertes, Richard Briers as Polonius, and Nicholas Farrell as Horatio. Other notable appearances include Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Rufus Sewell, Charlton Heston, Richard Attenborough, Judi Dench, John Gielgud and Ken Dodd.
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King Claudius King Claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet". He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his own brother with poison and then marrying the late king's widow. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain Feng who appears in "Chronicon Lethrense" and in Saxo Grammaticus' "Gesta Danorum". There had never been an actual Danish King of that name.
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Quilp Daniel Quilp is one of the main antagonists in the novel "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens, written in 1840. Quilp is a vicious, ill-tempered and grotesque dwarf and is the villain of the story. Quilp is as near that Dickens ever came to creating a monster. Actors who have portrayed him include Anthony Newley, Patrick Troughton and Toby Jones.
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Anthony Boyle Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is a Northern Irish actor best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the British play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" (2016), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Sources of Hamlet The sources of "Hamlet", a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601, trace back as far as pre-13th century Icelandic tales. The generic "hero-as-fool" story is so old and is expressed in the literature of so many cultures that scholars have hypothesized that it may be Indo-European in origin. A Scandinavian version of the story of Hamlet, Amleth or Amlóði (Norse for "mad", "not sane") was put into writing in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus around 1200 AD in the "Gesta Danorum" (from which Shakespeare borrowed). Similar accounts are found in the Icelandic "Saga of Hrolf Kraki" and the Roman legend of Lucius Junius Brutus, both of which feature heroes who pretend to be insane in order to get revenge. A reasonably accurate version of Saxo's story was translated into French in 1570 by François de Belleforest in his "Histoires Tragiques". Belleforest embellished Saxo's text substantially, almost doubling its length, and introduced the hero's melancholy.
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Macbeth Macbeth ( ; full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, "Macbeth" most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.
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Richard the Second Richard the Second is a 2001 American film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Richard II", directed by John Farrell.
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Hamlet (video game) Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement (or simply Hamlet on Android and Hamlet! on iOS) is an award-winning indie adventure game based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". It was developed and published by indie game developer Denis Galanin (aka mif2000).
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Henry Woolf Henry Woolf, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 January 1930 in Holborn, London) is a British actor, theatre director and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lives in Canada, and a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, "The Room" (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991 until 2001.
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Henry V (1989 film) Henry V is a 1989 British historical drama film adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name about King Henry V of England. The film stars Branagh in the title role with Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, Alec McCowen, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Brian Blessed, and Christian Bale in supporting roles.
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Ed Stoppard Edmund "Ed" Stoppard (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor.
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Carmen Dillon Carmen Dillon (25 October 1908, Hendon, London, England – 12 April 2000, Hove, East Sussex, England) was an English film and production designer who won an Oscar for the Olivier version of "Hamlet" (1948).
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Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress and author. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in "Hamlet", Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", and Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth". Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer. She drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical "Cabaret" in 1968.
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Goneril Goneril is a character in Shakespeare's tragic play "King Lear" (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan, Goneril is considered a villain, obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly father as ruler of the kingdom of Britain. Her aggressiveness is a rare trait for a female character in Elizabethan literature.
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Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews ( ; born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries "Brideshead Revisited" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in "Ivanhoe" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (both 1982), and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in "The King's Speech" (2010). For his performance in "Brideshead Revisited" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award, as well as being nominated for an Emmy.
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Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic "300" (2007) as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama "Hex" (2004–05). He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in "Hunger" (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include in the independent film "Fish Tank" (2009), as a Royal Marines lieutenant in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of "Jane Eyre", as Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method" (2011), as the sentient android David 8 in "Prometheus" (2012) and its sequel, "" (2017), and in the musical comedy-drama "Frank" (2014) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
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The Scottish Play The Scottish Play and The Bard's Play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to Shakespeare's popular nickname. According to a theatrical superstition, called the "Scottish curse", speaking the name "Macbeth" inside a theatre will cause disaster. A variation of the superstition also forbids quoting it within a theatre except as part of an actual rehearsal or performance of the play.
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Macbeth (2006 film) Macbeth is a 2006 Australian adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast led by Sam Worthington in the title role. "Macbeth", filmed in Melbourne and Victoria, was released in Australia on 21 September 2006.
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Renaissance Theatre Company The Renaissance Theatre Company was a theatre company founded in 1987 by Kenneth Branagh and David Parfitt. It was disbanded in 1992.
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Macbeth (1961 film) Macbeth is a 1961 Canadian television film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" starring Sean Connery.
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Nyasha Hatendi Nyasha Hatendi ( from ] ; born 14 September 1981) is an American-English actor, and producer.
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Malcolm McDowell Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor, known for his boisterous and sometimes villainous roles. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.