The Act will end with a swearing ritual, forcing Hamlet's friends not to reveal what they know of the Ghost's appearance, even as th...

Johnny Hallyday covers this sequence with not one, but three entire songs. Prière du spectre à Hamlet (The Ghost Prays Hamlet) has the Ghos...

The original With its "for boys" fixation, the original Classics Illustrated adaptation gives over almost two pages to the Ghost...

Because it doesn't use the integral text (or even all of the plot) ot Shakespeare's original, I do not return to China's The Ban...

Hamlet follows the Ghost into the mist-shrouded main set to confront his father's spirit. The Ghost is very angry at first, but mellows ...

Fodor's more experimental treatment gives us another very physical Ghost, but this one is unsympathetic, violent and malevolent. From th...

Sam Shepard is without a doubt my favorite Ghost and the power of his performance in this scene probably has a great deal to do with why it ...

Kline offers another sympathetic Ghost in Robert Murch, again without armor, though he does have a sword and is in full military dress. The ...

Hamlet runs up to the highest platform in Elsinore, and there he finds the Ghost skulking in a dark corner. The opening dialog is one of the...

The BBC version with Derek Jacobi features another Ghost heading for the edge of the cliff before Hamlet puts the breaks on it. So again, we...

Olivier's version of the Ghost is an off-putting creature. Everything about it makes you uneasy, which is at once its power and its weak...

Branagh creates a small patch of hell/purgatory in Denmark for the encounter between Hamlet and the Ghost: blasted trees and smoke coming ou...

I've split Scene 5 into two beats - the first with Hamlet and the Ghost, the second between Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus. The first is ...

It occurs to me that I should find a place for versions of Hamlet that appear in media other than the ones I've chosen to dissect. So fr...