Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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In five pages this paper examines Laurence Olivier's stage production and Franco Zeffirelli's cinematic version of Hamlet within the context of Bert O. States observation about filmmaker analogous tools, 'Shakespearean cinematography makes use of the same device (as employed by film directors) for advancing character ambiguity by framing the character against the rhetorical sky of the play's world.' Five sources are cited in the bibliography.