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Three Hamlets

Joining the Houghton Library in honor of the quatercentenary of Shakespeare's death, the Harvard Film Archive offers three of the most innovative screen adaptations of the Bard's most endearing play, Hamlet, with text composed by Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro, himself one of today’s great and most active screen adapters of Shakespeare in films such as Viola (2013) and The Princess of France (2014), which showed recently at the Harvard Film Archive.

Shakespeare: His Collected Works will be on exhibit in the Edison and Newman Room of Harvard’s Houghton Library from January 19 through April 23. On view will be important early editions, including the iconic First Folio owned by Harry Elkins Widener; creative respondents to Shakespeare from his eighteenth-century editor and critic Samuel Johnson through the modernist poet e.e. cummings; theatrical memorabilia highlighting the careers of great Shakespearean actors and actresses; and an arresting array of visual materials that trace the development of Shakespearean stagecraft over four centuries. For more information, visit the website.

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