<P>When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College (now Kean University) in 1982 he designed his own course in which he produced and directed a radio version of <I>Hamlet</I>.</P><P>Casting Kean faculty and students and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself Bevilacqua did not simply complete his nearly four-hour radio adaption of Shakespeare's greatest work. He did so while carrying a double major in speech-theater-media-communication and English and while producing acting in and sometimes writing radio plays for the WKNJ Radio Theater he founded at the college station. He also portrayed Dr. Martn Dysart in <I>Equus</I> on the Kean Stage and worked 24 hours per week as the assistant manager of Kean's Writing and Math Lab.</P><P><I>The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark</I> is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother Hamlet's father and subsequently seized the throne. He also married his deceased brother's widow Gertrude.</P><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>
Title | The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark |
Author | William Shakespeare; Joe Bevilacqua |
Narrator | Full Cast |
Media | Audiobooks |
Genre | General Fiction |
ISBN | 9781504617956 |
Published | 2015-07-07 |
Stock | In stock |
Duration | 4 hours 9 minutes |