“Tongo is a prison” – Revisiting Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet.

In 1964, the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC) produced an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with staff and students from the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama. Transposed to the far north of Ghana, Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet is described in the film’s opening sequence as a straigh...

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Published in:	Shakespeare in Southern Africa Vol. 37; pp. 16 - 27
Main Authors:	COLLINS, STEPHEN, QUARTEY, NII KWARTELAI
Format:	Article
Published:	Institute for the Study of English in Africa 2024
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Hamlet (Play : Shakespeare) University of Ghana Cultural policy Radicalism
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