... twentieth century. Denby points out, "Bangs and a scraggly beard obscure the handsome outlines of Gibson's forehead and chin" (Denby 766). Gibson's unkeptness isn't what would have been worn in Shakespeare's days. Gibson also appears to be trying to hide in the part of Hamlet. Denby adds, "By fuzzing his looks this way, he escapes, I suppose, the charge of being a mere movie-star ... unstable, cracking too easily" (Denby 767). Gibson doesn't want the audience to see and realize that he is a movie star, but his unprofessional voice and appearance give it away. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet no...

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... actors and audience. Shakespeare's plays are always open to interpretation; this is seen clearly through several movie versions of his famous play Hamlet. In Franco Zeffirelli's 1991 and Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film version of "Hamlet," we can see that the portrayal of the ghost of Hamlet's late father was different ... harrows me with fear and wonder" (Act I.Scene 1.53). Therefore, from the very first of the play, the audience members learn that Hamlet's father is dead and that a ghost in his armor is walking the castle's battlements at night. In Zeffirelli's film, however, the ghost doe...

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... have no limit. This type of action can be seen in movies, plays, short stories and music. The greatest shining example of this however, would have to be William Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, Hamlet. Interpreted by four directors, (in chronological order), Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branaugh, and Michael Almereyda, the play takes on four very different tones, personalities and qualities. They differ ... between the film versions and the original start right at the opening scenes. It is here that the true setting is established. This is something that Shakespeare leave...

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