The crowd knows this by the adjustments in her appearance. ... Zeffirelli made an extremely wise choice when he chose to have almost no cosmetics on Helena this made Ophelia look worn down and tired, which she would be suffering from with becoming mad. ... By Zeffirelli making the decision to use extremely straightforward outfits causes the crowd to concentrate more on the feelings of Hamlet and the fear that was shown by Gertrude's facial expressions. ... It is clear that Zeffirelli's choice of costuming enhanced his version of the famous play immensely, but the acting of Queen Ger...

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By the second weekend, Dream had received a great deal of word-of-mouth publicity among members of my age cohort for being completely different from the stale, boring, and irrelevant stereotype most of them held about Shakespeare. ... As with the costumes, the music he composed felt congruous with the nightclub environment, and the hip, contemporary feel of his beats struck the young adults in the audience as being antithetical to what they had come to expect from the soundtrack to a performance of a Shakespeare play. ... I wanted to promote the appeal of the production to a young demograp...

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