Dr. L. Dickson UNBC 1
Hamlet: Scene times
Hamlet: Scene times
OLIVIER 1948
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Advice to O
Ghost
O. affrighted
R&G&Players
Nunnery
2B
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Mad O
Laertes
Willow
Gravedigger
Poison plot
Duel
10:00-17:16
cut
24:01-25.25
30:45-45.01
44.59-47.17
cut
54:00-60:00
1:02-1:06
1:13:13-1:20
1:24:30-1:28:18
1:28:50-1:39
1:42:17-1:47
1:50-1:54
1:54-1:56
1:56:18-2:05
2:05-2:09:40
2:16:04-2:31
~7min
~1 ½ min
~14 ½ min
~2 min
(voice over/dramatisation)
~6min
~7min
~4min
~10min
~5min
~4min
~2min
~9min
~5min
~15min
(voice over)
General notes: This production is stripped bare to show only those elements directly concerned
with Hamlet. All "superfluous" characters and plotlines—notably the Fortinbras plot—have
been excised. Grounded in Jan Kott's Freudian Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, the production
construes the play as a purely psychological, Oedipal drama about a "man who could not make
up his mind." All political inferences are removed.
BURTON 1964
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Advice to O
Ghost
Reynaldo/O affr.
R&G&Players
Rogue
2B / Nunnery
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Mad O / Laertes
Willow
06:40-13:00
09:50
20:00-28:00
28:50-40:20
40:25-45:30
~6 ½ min
1:11-1:16:37
1:18:53-1:28:10
1:33:24-1:41:18
1:48:20-1:55:15
1:55:15-2:00
2:18-2:28
2:34:57-2:37:22
~5 ½ min
~10min
~8min
~7min
~5min
~10min
~3 ½ min
~8min
~11min
~5min
Dr. L. Dickson UNBC 2
Hamlet: Scene times
Gravedigger
Duel
2:34:30-2:50:23
2:55:21-3:03:51
~16min
~8min
5:10-12:15
8:47
22:05-25:26
26:00-38:00
cut
38:00-39:20
47:41-54:15
54:20-59:36
59:36-1:03:57
1:04-1:08:45
1:08:48-1:14:53
~7min
04:55-10:37
16:00-21:49
21:00-32:48
44:20-48:40
49:00-
~5 ½ min
~6min
~11 ½ min
~4min
1:01:37-1:04:35
1:04:40-1:14:00
1:20:34-
~3min
~9 ½ min
KLINE 1990
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Advice to O
Ghost
Reynaldo
O. affrighted
R&G
Players
Rogue
2B
Nunnery
PART 2
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Mad O
Laertes
Poison plot
Willow
Gravedigger
Duel
~3 ½ min
~12min
~1 ½ min
~7 ½ min
~5min
~4 ½ min
~4 ½ min
~6min
Zefferelli 1990
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Advice to O
Ghost
Reynaldo
O. affrighted
Nunnery
2B
R&G
Rogue
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Mad O
Hamlet Ship
05:15
07:11-12:14
12:25-16:45
23:40-35:56
cut
36:10-3*:30
45:09-49:10
49:15-53:10
53:15-58:40
1:00:56-1:04
1:04-1:12:32
1:16:14-1:16:55
1:17:12-1:26:06
1:31:20-1:37:30
1:35-1:39
~5min
~4min
~12 ½ min
(private)
~?? a couple of minutes
~4min
(Hamlet sees P&C)
~4min
~5min
~3min
~8 ½ min
~30sec
~9min
~6min
~4min
Dr. L. Dickson UNBC 3
Hamlet: Scene times
Laertes
Willow
Gravedigger
Duel
1:39:07-1:42:38
1:42-40-1:44:20
1:44:27-1:51:28
1:56:50-
~3 ½ min
~2min
~7min
09:31-26:50
14:06
29:37-32:31
36:20-50:47
50:51-57:48
1:02:40-1:06:51
1:11:37-1:15:00
~17min
1:26:07-1:29:55
1:32:40-1:35:55
1:35:56-1:43:48
1:49:31-1:59:58
2:05:48-2:10:26
2:10:28-2:25
~4min
~3min
~8min
~10min
~5min
~15min
20:42-27:23
27:30cut/refigured
40:14-42:32
42:50-45:35
45:3548:00-51:30
52:32-57:43
1:00:10-1:02
1:02-1:17
1:17:40-1:22:01
~7min
BRANAGH 1996
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Advice to L&O
Ghost
Reynaldo/O affr.
Purloined letter
R&G
&Players
Rogue
2B
Nunnery
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Laertes
Willow
Mad O
Gravedigger
Poison plot
Duel
~3min
~14min
~7min
~4min
~3 ½ min
HAWKE 2000
Court Speech
(kith and kind)
Ghost
Advice to O
O. affrighted
2B
R&G
Rogue
Nunnery
Mousetrap
Offense is rank
Closet
Mad O
~2min
~3min
~2min
~3 ½ min
~5min
~1min
~15min
~5min
Dr. L. Dickson UNBC 4
Hamlet: Scene times
Poison plot
Willow
Gravedigger
Duel
~1:27??
dramatisation
1:36:50-1:43
~7min