O'Reilly, DublinOver every Hamlet looms the shadow of the Hamlets who came before. Richard Burton played the Dane on Broadway in 1964, in a production directed by John Gielgud, one of the most famous Hamlets of all time " who in turn provided the voice for the ghost of Hamlet's father, itself represented by a shadow. The performance was filmed using 17 cameras in a process called Electronovision, later being shown si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM on October 5, 2012