Cheer Up, Hamlet! is a paper doll available for free online from Les Vieux Jours, and for which there are 16 costumes plus sundry accesso...

Three songs close Johnny Hallyday's rock opera: Le duel (The Duel), La mort d'Hamlet (The Death of Hamlet) and Le rideau tombe (The ...

The original Obviously, "Hamlet's Own Boy Adventure" is going to give a sword battle its due. To keep it as concise as it need...

The play as seen in montage in A Midwinter's Tale's climax only features two key moments, but they're edited in such a way, th...

Though the sequence includes a brief shot of the fight, the montage focuses principally on Hamlet's death and Jack Crew's emotiona...

In the final sequence, the film keeps its hyper-surveillance conceit up, pulling away from the action to a security camera from time to ti...

Much more from Laertes' point of view than other adaptations, the sequence starts with him painting his blade with poison and tying a ...

The setting for the duel is the Elsinore building's rooftop, the duelists dressed in fencing uniforms wired for electronic detection o...

I've had my issues with Kline's adaptation, but have to admit the duel's choreography is to my liking, as it explicitly shows ...

Though not the most verbose of scenes, Zeffirelli still manages to cut a fair bit of material, making the sequence of triumph of staging o...

As the duel begins, Hamlet is all business, a rhetorical genius with a prepared speech for the benefit of the Court. His apology to Laerte...

The duel Olivier offers us is framed in two traditions. The first is stagecraft, as these are extremely well choreographed set pieces of s...

The duel is staged, as most things are in Branagh's version, in the great hall of mirrors. A long thin red carpet has been set up wher...

It's not without irony that Shakespeare's wordiest play ends on an action scene with some of the most detailed stage directions in...

Not content with co-opting Santa Claus, Coca-Cola tried to appropriate Shakespeare in a 1928 ad campaign that used famous lines from the p...

The original Classics Illustrated spends two thirds of a page on Hamlet telling the story (with the help of forward-moving captions) of Rose...