... set by Olivier with his prologue - "This is the story of a man who could not make up his mind" - Almereyda provides us with a type of immediacy the theatre rarely does. Beginning with a tracking shot from within Hamlet's limousine as it moves through New York at night, the director uses captioning to set up the initial situation within the narrative . As this progression through New York ... in the scene, which in the "original" scenic order is Act 3 Scene 1. In the famous "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, the context of Ophelia, dispatched by Polonious for the royal couple is thoroughly ch...

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