I've decided to split Act IV Scene 7 into two sequences: Claudius' Seduction (of Laertes) and Ophelia's Death. The latter is r...

The original A strange choice from comics makers so focused on the "boys' adventure" elements of the play. This would have ...

An omission on my part, because it was out of normal order and I'd lost track of it, is the scenes that includes the speech "How ...

In this extremely simple version of the scene, with a single silent sailor waiting behind Horatio, a mystery just as the contents of the l...

Zeffirelli doesn't use the scene in which Horatio reads Hamlet's letter, going straight from Ophelia's last scene to her suici...

A most unusual staging, but completely supported by the text. We're in a public space, with plenty of people milling around. Horatio i...

The letters' arrival is interwoven into Scene 5, so occurs out of the normal sequence. First, the King and Queen get theirs BEFORE Lae...

From all accounts, the production got lucky one day when, after spending the whole shoot applying fake snow, a blizzard started up. Wantin...

Scene 6 is a brief moment that acts as "Meanwhile..." and tells us just what happened to Hamlet after he left Denmark. A dramati...

The original Interestingly, the old Classics Illustrated shows us Laertes outside Elsinore, leading the rabble at the gates. That might h...

Running through the whole play in a few minutes, A Midwinter's Tale keeps the energy level way up with Laertes brandishing a sword fro...

One motive for the Queen defending Claudius in this scene despite what Hamlet told her about him we haven't discussed is one of the mo...

Fodor's Laertes is a psychotic brute, never more apparent than in his return from France. Instead of leading a rebellion directly to t...

Seconds after Ophelia is carried off by security, Laertes comes out of nowhere to confront Claudius (well, security IS distracted...). It...

Laertes' arrival in the Kevin Kline-directed version of Hamlet is pretty standard. While there's no rabble at his heels, the pseud...

Laertes rides into Elsinore, a man alone, shouting at the castle and running in to look for the King. There's no rebellion here except...

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...