By contrast, Doran’s Hamlet follows the text exactly, sacrificing simplicity in favor of preserving the complexity of Hamlet’s character and motivations. ![]() However, that isn’t to say that Zeffirelli’s is necessarily better in fact, his decisions almost give us a shallower Hamlet whose motivations and thoughtsare more generic and easy to understand. In my opinion, Zeffirelli’s new sequence of events does an admirable job of simplifying the plot without detracting too much from the meaning, as we still have Hamlet’s brooding, his interactions with other characters, and his resulting rage. He then moves backwards to the “ Flourish of trumpets within” before jumping forward again into halfway through the closing soliloquy. With reference to the text, Zeffirelli places the “to be or not to be” soliloquy directly before Hamlet’s friendly encounter with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, then skips forward from the players’ arrival into just after the First Player’s speech. ![]() Perhaps the most readily apparent difference between these versions is that Zeffirelli chooses on more than one occasion to change the original order of events or, in some cases, omit lines entirely.
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