As the duel begins, Hamlet is all business, a rhetorical genius with a prepared speech for the benefit of the Court. His apology to Laerte...

The duel Olivier offers us is framed in two traditions. The first is stagecraft, as these are extremely well choreographed set pieces of s...

The duel is staged, as most things are in Branagh's version, in the great hall of mirrors. A long thin red carpet has been set up wher...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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