Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture (1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2nd edition, 2012) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge, 2012). His co-edited publications include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (2000), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006) and Filming and Performing Renaissance History (2011).

1. Hamlet, cinema and the histories of Western Europe; 2. Thematising place: Hamlet, cinema and Africa; 3. Hamlet and the moment of Brazilian cinema; 4. Pairing the cinematic Prince: Hamlet, China and Japan; 5. Hamlet and Indian cinemas: regional paradigms; 6. Gendering borders: Hamlet and the cinemas of Turkey and Iran; 7. Materialising Hamlet in the cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.