The second of Hamlet's five great soliloquies, it may suffer severe cuts in adaptations where the First Player isn't allowed to perf...

University professor Lee Shackleford and fellow blogger Snell both turned me on to this on to this one-shot comic strip at Funny Shorts almo...

When I posted the Gilligan's Island Hamlet parody some months ago, I did so without comment. I feel kind of bad about that. So here...

The original Plot, plot, plot. The original Classics Illustrated is driven it by it rather than poetry or emotion. It's a natural by-pro...

An important thing to remember as we get into this section with the Tennant version is that this adaptation placed Hamlet's meeting with...

Polonia walks into the room to announce the players' arrival. She seems disinterested and impatient in a way that reminds of Much Ado Ab...

I've generally been very critical of this version of the play, but there is much to like in this section. Polonius, as played by Josef S...

Structurally, Zeffirelli's version continues to distance itself from other Hamlet. The Players are not, in this case, announced by Polon...

The BBC version provides us with a very different take on the First Player's speech, but before we get there, Polonius must announce the...

In Olivier's version, the players only appear after Hamlet has his arranged encounter with Ophelia and "To be or not to be". T...

Branagh finds a number of ways to make sure his audience doesn't grow bored during this sequence. There's a long, single taker (or ...

Though Polonius announcing the Players, their arrival and Hamlet's request to the First Player are usually retained, it is rarer for the...

R&G's failed interrogation of Hamlet is best represented by the song Quel mal te bouffe? (What's Eating You?), a short ditty ( e...

The original The original Classics Illustrated omits this entire sequence, though R&G ARE characters in the comic. They are introduced a...

Though some R&G pairings emphasize the betrayal, acting as somewhat sinister agents of the Royals, the 2009 R&G emphasize just how m...

A weak Hamlet Fodor's Hamlet - not to say William Bedchambers' - is weaker than in any other version of the play, and this sequence ...

R&G board Hamlet in a club chronologically after the "To be or not to be" speech. They are played by Steve Zahn (as Rosencrant...

In Kline's version, we likewise only meet R&G at this point. They are played by Philip Goodwin (a nerdy Rosencrantz) and Reg. E. Cat...