An impatient and even angry Claudius enters, followed by the scene's other participants, including Ophelia who we easily forget is prese...

We start the third Act with a scene that's again too long to do in one go. I've split it into three sequences: Briefings, in which R...

The original The speech is mostly omitted from this adaptation as again, the First Player never moved Hamlet to pronounce it. What we keep i...

The montage from Slings & Arrows Season 1, episode 6, cuts this speech down to a single line (the first). In the context of the show, th...

To motivate "Now I am alone", Hamlet rips out the room's surveillance camera, and yet, ironically, speaks that line to the sub...

Hamlet's thought process via-à-vis this speech was almost all played out in his head during the previous sequence, through hallucination...

2000's Hamlet does his soliloquy as voice-over, obviously depressed and watching an old movie (Rebel Without a Cause) in his bed, listle...

Kline's Hamlet looks around, makes sure he is alone before saying so. He has a small stage to play with and makes good use of it, at fir...

Zeffirelli cuts some 30 lines from the speech, most from the opening as the First Player now makes no impression with an impassioned speech ...

Jacobi plays the soliloquy AS a soliloquy, directly to camera, and this achieves at least two distinctive effects. The first is that it make...

As the Players leave, Hamlet looks on and pauses at their theatrical paraphernalia left on the raised throne, a bare stage that evokes the c...

Another soliloquy done in a single shot that follows Hamlet around the room begins with the prince out of breath, having just run into his s...

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...