Hyperion to a Satyr: Act 4, Scene 5 - Laertes Returns

Hyperion to a Satyr - The Fire and Water Podcast Network's Hamlet Podcast - continues Siskoid's scene-by-scene deep dive into Shakespeare's masterwork, discussing the text, but also performance and staging through the lens of several films, television, comics and even a rock opera. In Act 4, Scene 5, Part 2, Laertes returns from France, incensed.

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Credits:
Theme: "Fanfare" from 1996 Hamlet, by Patrick Doyle, with a clip from that film, starring Ray Fearon; the 2009 Hamlet, starring David Tennant; and the 1980 Hamlet, starring Derek Jacobi.

Bonus clips: Hamlet 1996 by Kenneth Branagh, starring Derek Jacobi and Kate Winslet; Hamlet 1948 by Laurence Olivier, starring Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons and Terence Morgan; Hamlet 1980 by Rodney Bennett, starring David Robb and Lalla Ward; Hamlet 1990 by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Nathaniel Parker; Hamlet 2000 by Michael Almereyda, starring Liev Schreiber and Diane Venora; Hamlet 2007 by Alexander Fodor, starring Tallulah Sheffield; Hamlet 2009 by Gregory Doran, starring Mariah Gale; and In a Bleak Midwinter by Kenneth Branagh, starring John Sessions and Nicholas Farrell.

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