In Hamlet 2000, we don't stay in the theater long. Horatio and Marcella noted Claudius' blenching at the movie screen (as did we), b...

In a small ironic twist, Hamlet runs around with a dagger at the beginning of this sequence - false fire indeed! And euphoric, he lets himse...

An important difference with this adaptation is that the revels continue even after members of the Court scurry for the exits. It's an o...

Like Olivier's before him, Jacobi's Hamlet sings the opening lines of this sequence, and like Branagh's after him, he infuses th...

As the Court leaves the "theater", Hamlet sings his lines, throwing his torch in the air jubilantly. He becomes so manic, in fact,...

In the whirlwind of words and black comedy that follows, I had never really noticed before that Nick Farrell's Horatio doesn't actua...

The scene's final sequence concerns reactions less to the play than about everyone's reactions about the play. Hamlet wants to know ...

Un trône sans roi/Throne Without a King is a transitional piece of music on Johnny Hallyday's album, but if you use your imagination, yo...

The original Surprisingly, the old "boys' adventure" comics version includes both the dumb show and the speaking play, though ...

It's likely this version of Hamlet, if actually staged, would be exhausting to both audience and actors. Because it is presented as a qu...

The very brief part of this scene used in Slings & Arrows amounts to Hamlet's opening insults to Ophelia, but there are still lesson...

Set in China, The Banquet of course presents the play-within-a-play as Chinese opera. The full court is in attendance, but the Royals are qu...

Tennant's Hamlet is a petulant and mischievious child in this scene. The audience's entrance is scored with the Danish national anth...

The Mouse-Trap is translated into a German experimental film in Fodor's vision. It was made very quickly, although the play does allow f...

Hamlet 2000 features some important cuts, including the entirety of the play within the play, replaced by a dialogless art film of Hamlet...

In Kline's adaptation, the Royals sit on the stage, facing the audience, and the Players perform their play midway between the Royals an...

Despite his adaptation's many cuts, Zeffirelli acknowledges this scene's importance by not only showing a good part of the play-with...

Hamlet begins the scene in a cloak and skull mask which makes Claudius laugh and Gertrude smile. The staging, in which Claudius immediately ...

Trumpets sound, everyone enters, Hamlet in darkness in the center. First, courtiers and players, showing deference, and only then do the Roy...