For this essay you are to put everything together to consider the various ways Shakespeares Hamlet has been made accessible to modern audiences while still retaining its identity as a Renaissance play. To that end, you have available three different productions: Laurence Oliviers black-and-white period piece; Kenneth Branaghs set in the nineteenth century; and Ethan Hawkes modern retelling. For this paper, you are to explore the way that one aspect of the text has been presented in one of the films.
