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Andrzej Wajda’s Two Hamlets and One Macbeth: The Director's Struggle with Shakespearean Tragedy in the Changing Contexts of Polish History
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Jacek Fabiszak,
GICID01.3001.0013.7840
KeywordsShakespeare, adaptation, Andrzej Wajda, war, difference, theatre
Date of publication2016/09/01
IssueAnglica 2016;25(3):99-106
Abstract
Andrzej Wajda is a renown Polish theatre and film director, whose achievements have been recognised by theatre and film artists and critics all over the world (he has been awarded an Oscar).
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He has directed four versions of Hamlet and two versions of Macbeth (one for Polish television in 1969, the other for the Stary Theatre in Kraków in 2004). I propose to look at three productions to trace Wajda’s evolution in his approach to Shakespearean tragedy: Hamlet III, scenes of which were first staged in the Royal Castle of Wawel in Cracow, and then at the Stary Theatre in 1981.
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