Shakespeare In Hamlet

For this play the play was screened in a movie theater type setting, however the play was performed on a proscenium in London. While the proscenium was perfect for the play, the theatre setting was less than ideal for watching the play. During major scenes the camera only focused in on one aspect of the stage, not fully revealing all that was happening. The play kept true to the old English roots, but it was modernized to the 1920s style.
In the beginning we see Hamlet sitting alone with a scrapbook reminiscing about his dead father, the king. Then, after a few moments his friend walks in and he is told that he must return to dinner with the royal family and company. In this he reveals his true problem with this whole situation, that his mother married Claudius so soon after Hamlet’s father’s death. Later on in the play we discover that Claudius killed Hamlet’s father and Hamlet chooses to act upon it. Towards the middle of the play, Hamlet has a group of players preform something similar to his father’s murder to watch for a rise in …show more content…
Many people, myself included, write off Cumberbatch due to him being “overrated” according to most. However, after seeing Hamlet I am more than impressed with his depiction of the character. In some scenes, such as the play within a play where they are showing Claudius a play about essentially what was the dead king’s murder, Benedict Cumberbatch simply made facial expressions to convey what his character was thinking or feeling at that moment in time. Also, when there was a long monologue, Cumberbatch would stress different words vocally through a change of pitch. Not only did this change in the vocal structure of the speech make it more interesting, but gave more insight as to what the end goal was for Hamlet. These help to transmit what was Hamlet’s super-objective in the play, to reveal that Claudius murdered his own brother who is also Hamlet’s