"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 ... art film - "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 Shakesp...

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