Claudius tried to turn a blind eye to her many affairs, but in 48 AD Messalina took a new lover, Gaius Silius, a nobleman. Their relationship was widely thought to be cover for a plot and Claudius ...

both Claudius and Hamlet are trying to direct, or control the actions and outcome of the ensuing tragedy. This production had the sense of a thriller, as king and prince tried to out-plot each ...

Pictured above is Hamlet talking with Claudius and Gertrude during the opening scene. There's a stark contrast in the white costumes of the king and queen compared to Hamlet dressed in sombre black.

Hamlet (Sir Kenneth Branagh), son of the King of Denmark (Brian Blessed), is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother Gertrude's (Julie Christie's) wedding to his uncle Claudius (Sir ...

In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... That would cause all manner of havoc in the plot.) True, there are interludes of genuine desolation here, though ...