Conceptual, representational and figurative transdiscursivity of the play Hamlet in an audiovisual context. Case study: Hamlet as televised theater.

Abstract

Does the television representation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, broadcast in 1970 on TVE, through the drama program Estudio I, achieve the objective of transferring an original discourse to a theatrical representation and from this to an audiovisual filmic narrative? These are some of the initial formulations that are presented and answered throughout the corpus of this research work and that make up the main purpose of this thesis.

Here we describe, synthesize and explain, through the analysis of Hamlet's discourse, in its narrative, rhetorical and semantic aspects, the parallels, identities and transdiscursive differences existing between the original tragedy and its theatrical film adaptation,  through the only existing television in Spain.

Among the conclusions obtained in our analysis, it is verified the transcendental role of Spanish television, not only as a medium capable of uniting the virtues and expressive procedures of cinema and theater, but also as a cultural instrument that made literary works known to a large public, which otherwise would never have had access to them.