Hyperion to a Satyr
Saturday, December 13, 2014

V.ii. Duel and Deaths

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It's not without irony that Shakespeare's wordiest play ends on an action scene with some of the most detailed stage directions in...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Other Hamlets: What Shakespeare Says About Coca-Cola

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Not content with co-opting Santa Claus, Coca-Cola tried to appropriate Shakespeare in a 1928 ad campaign that used famous lines from the p...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Classics Illustrated

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The original Classics Illustrated spends two thirds of a page on Hamlet telling the story (with the help of forward-moving captions) of Rose...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Tennant (2009)

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The sequence is set in a cluttered storeroom where the broken mirror from Polonius' accidental murder is now housed. From a staging po...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Fodor (2007)

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In Fodor's version of the play, Osric and his attendant Lord are figures of almost cartoony disposition, but with a definite sinister ...
Friday, November 7, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Hamlet 2000

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The sequence is set in Hamlet's apartment where Marcella is sleeping, with the Ghost at her bedside. I hadn't realized it before, ...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Kline '90

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Kline keeps most of the sequence intact, give or take a line here and there (the mocking if Osric listing Laertes' twin weapons, for e...
Friday, October 24, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Zeffirelli '90

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Having already shown Hamlet switching the letters on the ship, the sequence actually starts with Osric walking in. But this isn't the ...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - BBC '80

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Robert Swann's Horatio is often invisible, but his wet, empathic eyes give this scene an extra injection of pathos. We're with him...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Olivier '48

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In this staging, Claudius and Laertes have just worked out their murder plot, the camera moves away from them, pans up, and Hamlet and Hor...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Branagh '96

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Elsinore, the next day, with Francisco on guard duty. This sets up Fortinbras' arrival, a means to jump in and out of the palace and e...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

V.ii. The Readiness Is All

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The Hamlet project has finally reached the play's last scene, though of course, there's so much material to cover, we'll be sp...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Other Hamlets: Dirtbag Hamlet

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You may or may not find "Dirtbag Hamlet" amusing (the complete story HERE , text Mallory Ortberg, pictures Matt Lubchansky), a t...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - French Rock Opera

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Johnny Hallyday's song for this sequence relates to Hamlet's great feats of love, outdoing a Laertes that is absent from the music i...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Classics Illustrated

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The original Though this adaptation condenses a lot of sequences it believes won't interest the young boys its producers evidently think...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Act IV Scene 4 - A Midwinter's Dream

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Another IV.iv omission on my part because again, an adaptation chose to feature it out of order. The "how all occasions do inform me...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Tennant (2009)

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Hamlet, skull still in hand, hides in the bushes as the funeral procession proceeds to give (slim) rites to Ophelia in the shadow of (pres...
Friday, August 22, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Fodor (2007)

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Sad music plays over a series of expedient shots separated by fades to black: The burial party approaching, a blue-lipped enshrouded Ophel...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Hamlet 2000

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All told from Hamlet's point of view, we can barely hear Gertrude's and Laertes' lines as he and Horatio come up the hill and ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

V.i. Ophelia's Funeral - Kline '90

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Kevin Kline does something very interesting in this scene, using Ophelia's body a character in its own right. Seconds into revealing h...
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