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''Hamlet'', released in the United States as ''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', was a 1907 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Hamlet''. ==Production== The pioneering Parisian filmmaker Georges Méliès had multiple cinematic encounters with the plays of William Shakespeare. The first, his 1901 film ''The Devil and the Statue'', had alluded to ''Romeo and Juliet'' by including a balcony scene and Venetian lovers called Roméo and Juliette. (An earlier Méliès work, the 1899 film ''Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb'', is sometimes called simply ''Cléopatre'', but it is not connected to Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra''.) Méliès also dabbled in Shakespeare in his 1905 film ''The Venetian Looking-Glass'', which incorporates the character of Shylock from ''The Merchant of Venice''. However, these earlier films had merely borrowed elements from Shakespearean works; by contrast, Méliès's 1907 version of ''Hamlet'' was a true Shakespearean adaptation.〔 Méliès himself played Hamlet.〔 Special effects used in the film included multiple exposures.〔 The film was the first multi-scene cinematic adaptation of any work by Shakespeare.〔 〕 Later in 1907, Méliès made his last Shakespearean film, ''Shakespeare Writing "Julius Caesar"'', in which Méliès played Shakespeare himself.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hamlet (1907 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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