"There is no mystery in a looking glass, until someone looks into it." - Harold Goddard, The Meaning Of Shakespeare. There have been more than 50 films, either for cinema or television, of Shakespeare's most staged play, from Lawrence Olivier's 1948 Oscar-winning almost film-noir version to the parody of Kaurismaki's Hamlet Goes Business (1987). The latest is Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), ... "The Mousetrap". The film achieves the same effect whilst reducing the required cast and running time and creating a pleasing translation of the "play within a play" device (often used in Shakespear...

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