Bourus, Terri2010-11-022010-11-022001-08Bourus, Terri. “The first quarto of Hamlet in film: The revenge tragedies of Tony Richardson and Franco Zeffirelli.” November 2, 2010. Available from IUPUI ScholarWorks. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2301.Bourus, Terri. “The first quarto of Hamlet in film: The revenge tragedies of Tony Richardson and Franco Zeffirelli.” Hamlet on Film Supplement. EnterText 1, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 180-191. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/4042/entertext1.2/Hamlet/bourros.pdf1472-3085https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2301This article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Permission granted through posted policies on copyright owner’s website or through direct contact with copyright owner.In 1969, Tony Richardson released a filmed version of his acclaimed theatrical production of Hamlet. Twenty-one years, and many staged productions of Hamlet later, Franco Zeffirelli filmed yet another, and very different, Hamlet. Whereas Richardson’s is darkly minimal, Zeffirelli’s colourful and star-studded production is lavish in set and setting. Nicol Williamson’s intense portrayal of Hamlet is a far cry from that of Mel Gibson’s Hollywood-esque revenger. But together, these films, and other daring productions like them, demonstrated the actability of the first quarto of Hamlet as a performance text thereby helping to change its status among textual scholars as well, prompting them to reevaluate the 1603 quarto.en-USFranco ZeffirelliHamletTony RichardsonTragediesShakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Film adaptationsShakespeare, William, 1564-1616. HamletRichardson, Tony, 1928-1991Zeffirelli, FrancoArticle