Hamlet Plays Flashcards
1
Q
What is significant about Andrew Scott’s Hamlet?
A
- The ghosts of everyone dead appear at the end (Ophelia is in a wedding dress)
- Claudius is aware Hamlet points a gun at him in the praying scene
- Hamlet shoots the curtain too high to truly believe Polonius is a rat
- Characters sit in audience to watch the play
- Hamlet points a gun at everyone
- Claudius leaves through the exit at the word ‘usurp’
1
Q
What is significant about RSC’s David Tennants Hamlet (2009)?
A
- security cameras around the castle
- Patrick Stewart plays both Claudius + the ghost
- Ophelia strips clothes off in madness
- Hamlet is strapped to a chair + interrogated
2
Q
What is significant about the Derik Jacobi 1988 Hamlet?
A
on the line ‘go bid ye soldiers shoot’ fortinbras’ guard shoots horatio dead + the rest of the guard still alive
