Monitor · SEASON 7
The Prince of Denmark
Episode 3 · 1963-10-27

- Documentary
Episode overview
A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Degas: A Dancing World Edgar Degas, the great French Impressionist painter, became in his later years so involved in the world of the Paris Opera Ballet that he seemed to re-live in his art every movement, every gesture of the dancer's body. Margaret Dale looks at the world he created in the light of her own experience as dancer and choreographer. The Prince of Denmark The National Theatre opened last week with Shakespeare's Hamlet. Peter O'Toole talks about the part and the play with Ernest Milton a great Hamlet of the 1920s.
Season 7 episodes
1. Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance1963-09-29
2. Film Man's Sketch Book1963-10-13
3. The Prince of Denmark1963-10-27
4. A Sense of Order1963-11-10
5. Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy1963-11-24
6. Francisco Goya1963-12-08
7. Episode 71963-12-22
8. Death of My Mother1964-01-05
9. The Lost Michelangelo1964-01-19
10. Making the Bedmakers1964-02-02
11. 'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 601964-02-16
12. Episode 121964-03-01
13. The Marks of Violence1964-03-15
14. Poet Laureate1964-03-29
15. Engraver in Montparnasse1964-04-12
16. The New Generation 19641964-04-26
17. The Power of Myth1964-05-10
18. Bela Bartok1964-05-24
19. Jean Tinguely sculptor1964-06-21
20. Alfred Hitchcock1964-07-05
21. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: York and Lancaster1964-08-30
22. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Meeting the Children1964-09-06
23. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Dog in the Night1964-09-13
24. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Life Flows and Overflows1964-09-20
25. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal1964-09-27
26. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression1964-10-04