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Hamlet: Alternate Interpretations (AO5) Vault

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Shani Cipro

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Course Overview

Course Content

  • Performances and Adaptations
      • National Theatre, 2025

        • They cast South Asian actors to play Hamlet and Gertrude

        • The actress who plays Ophelia is a little person

        • Hamlet has a moment alone on stage before the courtiers join him

        • Hamlet doesn't seem to fit in with the court in Act 1 Scene 2

        • The 'too solid/sullied flesh' speech is delivered during a freeze frame

        • Hamlet regularly breaks the fourth wall

        • Polonius is portrayed as a good father

        • You can't see the Ghost in the bedchamber scene

        • Hamlet kills Polonius with a gun

        • The actor who plays the Ghost also plays the Player King

        • Gertrude is, arguably, the only character who experiences a positive change arc

Paid
  • Course Level All Levels
  • Lessons 11
  • Additional Resource 0
  • Last Update 30 August 2026
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