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Based on Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja by Ivo Brešan (q.v.). Written and directed by Krsto Papić. Produced by Sulejman Kapić. Cinematography by Vjenceslav Orešković. Edited by Lida Branis.

With Rade Šerbedžija (Joco / Hamlet), Milena Dravić (Anđa / Ophelia), Krešimir Zidarić (Bukara / the King), Fabijan Šovagović (Andro), Izet Hajdarhodžić (Joco's father), Ljubiša Samardžić (Mačak), Mate Ergović (Simurina), Zvonko Lepetić (Mile), Zdenka Heršak (Mara), and others.

Adapted and directed by Sulejman Kupusovic from Ivo Brešan's Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja (q.v.). Scenography and costume design by Marijela Hašimbegović; stage managed by Nihad Kapic.

With Josip Pejakovic (Hajraga),  Milan Pavlovic (Secretary),  Mirsad Tuka (Meša), Nerman Mahmutovic (Šuco), Amina Begovic (Safeta), Mirvad Kuric (Baja), Aldin Omerovic (Suljo), Merima Lepić-Redžepović (Azra), Slaven Vidak (Zulfo), Sanela Pepljak (Remza), and Riad Ljutovic (Spitz).

Comedy about a production of Hamlet in Dalmatia.

Written by Ivo Brešan in 1965. First published, Kolo, 1971.

Croatian-language comedy about staging Hamlet in Dalmatia.

"Investigates three different theatrical versions of Hamlet, Ivo Brešan’s Predstava Hamleta u Selu Mrduša Donja (The Performance of Hamlet in Central Dalmatia), Slobodan Šnajder’s Gamllet, and Luko Paljetak’s Poslije Hamleta (After Hamlet)" (q.v. all). Suggests that these interpretations of Hamlet offer insights into Croatian history and culture and respond to the political moments in which they were performed. English summary, 213.

Adaptation by Slobadan Šnajder, written 1986.

Croatian-language adaptation of Hamlet.

Includes one essay on Shakespeare.

Argues that "Shakespeare draws on the quasi-medical thoery of the passion of jealous" in Winter's Tale, focusing on Leontes' jealousy.

Includes one essay on Shakespeare.

Building on Coriolanus's self-description as a "lonely dragon," presents Coriolanus as an archetypal dragon: predatory, greedy, and "think[ing] of himself as being superior to the human condition." Positions Aufidius as archetypal dragon slayer. Suggests that Shakespeare's dragon imagery draws on Scandinavian literature and Nordic myth.  English summary, 136.