The conflict between Claudius and Laertes works by contrast. David Robb gives us one of the angriest Laertes examined in this series of ar...

Olivier's treatment of this sequence is highly cinematic and focuses on Ophelia, not her brother, with massive cuts to his lines. Betw...

The gentleman's story (here, a female attendant's) is intercut with the racing feet of the rebels through the halls until the brea...

The second half of Act IV, Scene 5 sees Laertes return from France, in open rebellion against the King, with the support of the people who...

The original Probably because there was too much sexual subtext in the sequence, the original Classics Illustrated adaptation chose to ex...

Starting in front of the broken mirror, a metaphor now for Ophelia's broken mind, Gertrude's broken spirit, and Claudius' brok...

The more extreme relationships in this version of the play transform the meaning of almost every line in the scene (at least, those that s...

Hamlet 2000 uses heavy cuts to ramp the scene's momentum up, focusing on Ophelia's disruptive influence at "court". The ...

Diane Venora has such a deep voice, it's hard to see her as anything but an adult version of Ophelia, but perhaps that's why her d...

As usual, Zeffirelli plays fast and loose with the sequence of lines, but to good effect. Helena Bonham-Carter's waifish Ophelia is fi...

In this version, Gertrude clearly feels helpless to help Ophelia, which makes the girl's angry defiance even more shocking. Lalla Ward...

The scene starts with foreshadowing of Ophelia's suicide as we see her reflection in the famous brook, taking a flower floating upon t...

In one of Branagh's few changes to the text, he reorders Claudius' end speech (starting with "When sorrows come") in thi...

Allow me to upend the usual order by starting with Slings & Arrows, but while the scene is part of the onscreen performance (above), t...

Scene 5 can be split into two sequences, Ophelia's descent into madness and Laertes' return (though the latter eventually dovetail...

What happened to Hamlet on his way to England? The play tells us through a letter to Horatio, but writers Conor McCreery and Anthony Del C...

The original adaptation omits this scene entirely, but the Berkley version doesn't, though by staging the action just as Hamlet's pa...

The Banquet (sold in America as Legend of the Black Scorpion) must be the only version of Hamlet that includes snow ninjas. While the stor...

In the play inside the show, Luke Kirby's Jack Crew is getting into the "home stretch", as this is the last of six soliloqui...

You'd think this modern adaptation, with countries represented as corporations, would cut Fortinbras' "powers" and this ...