The original One of the side-effects of converting Hamlet to a "boys' adventure" comic is that while many scenes are reduce...

This whole section is one of the biggest structural changes director Gregory Doran made to the play. By moving the "My thoughts be bl...

Fodor actually intercuts this scene with Ophelia going to her death, making the two moments more overtly simultaneous and giving Fortune j...

Though it does suffer some important cuts, the scene is well-played and well-staged, and features some interesting innovations. For exampl...

The scene suffers a number of cuts, starting slightly later, removing Lamond (as often happens), and any mention of the wick or snuff that...

As with Olivier's adaptation, Zeffirelli moves this scene (or what's left of it) to after Ophelia's funeral and Hamlet's r...

Though lines were not cut from the top of this version, the direction still makes it seem like we're catching a conversation in progre...

Olivier moves this scene to a later position, AFTER Ophelia's burial and Hamlet's return, even conflating it with elements of Scen...

It's always exciting when lines glossed over in the text are made more interesting and given more power when performed. This happens a...

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...