... screen adaptations of them. In the process of being made into a film, many works of literature may be changed according to the interpretations of directors, 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 ... loud voice, while in the Zeffirelli version the ghost was calmer when speaking to Hamlet. In Branagh's version of Hamlet, the ghost is p...

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