The next section of Act I Scene 2 that will be examined includes Hamlet's parents discussing his father's death with him and his fir...

The Original As previously stated, the wedding banquet does not appear in the original Comics Illustrated adaptation whose focus is on ...

Slings and Arrows is rather playful with the banquet scene, using our knowledge of the actors' stories to give each scene an extra level...

Fodor intercuts various parts of Scene 2 and Scene 3 as if occurring more or less simultaneously at the banquet (here a cocktail party or re...

In this modern retelling of Hamlet, the banquet is a press conference, which makes perfect sense in the point of view of the adaptation. The...

The Kevin Kline version jumps right into the thick of things with a lustful kiss between Claudius and Gertrude (and they kiss again in the m...

Zeffirelli likes to play fast and loose with the play's scene structure, upending certain lines, changing the sequence of scenes around,...

In which we find that there are no small roles in Hamlet... The BBC's version of Claudius is famously played by Patrick Stewart, clearly...

Olivier's most intriguing contribution to the wedding banquet is actually the transition leading into it. The camera, which you'll r...

Branagh sets the banquet in the most important set of the film, the Hall of Mirrors. This long ballroom is bright where Elsinore is often da...

One of the challenges of doing a project like this is that some scenes are incredibly long. So I've decided to cut of them into pieces f...

In 1976, some would say at the height of his popularity, France's "Elvis Presley", Johnny Hallyday produced a studio double-al...

Hamlet wasn't just adapted for the screen. It was also became the focus of two issues of Classics Illustrated. The original Classics Ill...

Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale (or A Bleak Midwinter, for UK audiences) is our second "play within a play", and as w...

So we come to our first play within a play - Hamlet as done on the brilliant Slings & Arrows. Because the show is about the behind the s...