Adaptations

Question 1

Features of the Olivier adaptation

Answer 1

Made in 1948
Stresses Oedipal overtones
Highly psychological performance 
Politics cut out
Influenced by film noir

Question 2

Kozinstev’s adaptation

Answer 2

Made in 1964
Is political and public, influenced by post-Stalinist era
Most soliloquies cut

Question 3

Zeffirelli

Answer 3

1990
Text is cut to enhance roles of women
Short shots make the film more active
Incest theme highlighted

Question 4

Branagh version

Answer 4

1996
Internal scenes more colourful
Flashbacks are used to dramatise element not performed in the text