Jacobi's Hamlet is a proactive one, in the scene from the start. His first line is NOT an aside, it is spoken out loud and full of scorn...

The camera tracks back from Claudius and Olivier's Hamlet is revealed at the end of the table. He's been there all along, at the fur...

As Claudius finally turns to Hamlet, the camera pans through the audience, a metaphorical wall, to Hamlet very much waiting in the wings. Th...

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...