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To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
Kenneth Branaugh may have had the script of William Shakespeare's Hamlet
spoken down to every last thee and thou, but one must remember that this is
Hamlet through Branaugh's eyes, not Shakespeare's. Therefore, dismissing
obvious additions made for adapting the play to film, such as having a real
castle instead of a stage, it is possible to observe the unique characters,
interpretations, actions, and setting that make this version the director's own.
In the time of Shakespeare, one of the actors main challenges was to us....
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