books0977: Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1899). Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939).
books0977: Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1899). Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Poster. F. Champenois, Paris. Sarah Bernhardt played the male hero in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Mucha stresses Hamlet’s relationship with the ghost of his murdered father, whose figure looms in the background, stalking the ramparts of Elsinore. Hamlet’s obsession with death is emphasised by the inclusion of the drowned Ophelia in the poster who lies decorated with flowers, in the coffin-like panel at Hamlet’s feet. -- source link