Once Le Duel De Hamlet

The play opens with the two very minor characters alone on stage, placing bets on a coin toss while traveling to Elsinore, on the command of King Claudius. Guildenstern (or Rosencrantz) is troubled by the fact that a coin has landed on heads eighty-five times in a row. R&G live in a world in which they do not understand. Not quite sure of where they are going to and pretty much even who they are and where they came from. While waiting for the next instruction, they entertain one another with games such as word play and small stakes. Told by the King to do so, they try to determine whether Hamlet is really mad or just up to mischief, ending up more confused.

When reading the works of Shakespeare, few lines of verse, a sentence, or one complex may hold a reader behind. Shakespeare’s supreme mastery of words and images, of sound, rhythm, and texture, as well as the point, neatness, and lyricism of his lines, has imprisoned numerous minds of people. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most difficult plays to comprehend. While reading the text version it is tough to imagine a character’s distinctiveness. Facial expressions, body language, etc. are just about impossible to read and develop a clear picture in your mind, from page. Each of the characters to me, from the text, had no personality what so ever. It is a usual and reasonable opinion that Shakespeare’s greatness is nowhere more visible than in the series of tragedies, in which, Hamlet falls under. When plays are seen in performance, they are further revealed in a new, three dimensional, flesh and blood reality, which grows in the playgoer’s mind. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s more difficult plays to comprehend.

Shakespeare's Hamlet is about Hamlet the prince of Denmark, but in the Stoppard edition, two of his so called friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern think it's about them.

Kenneth Branagh was the exact Hamlet in my mind’s eye. Branagh played Hamlet to the tee of the play. Hamlet was supposed to be a distressed man and he played the part to be. I absolutely loved Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. He was amusing and yet still vulgar. He was all around a superb Hamlet.

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