Another important silique absent was at the gravesite of Ophellia, when Hamlet compares his own to another man's skull. In the last scene during the sword fight once again Zeffirelli keeps it short and ditches a few lines. All these changes Zeffirelli made to Hamlet were modified just to strengthen the engagements and condense the plot. .
The Kenneth Branagh Hamlet is a word for word version. It seems as if the actors staged exactly what Shakespeare wrote. The future king of Denmark, Hamlet, struggles through his father's, the King, recent dealth. On top of that, within a short period of time his mother, the Queen, marries his uncle. Due to a paranormal experience, Hamlet learns that his uncle was the murder of his father. Somehow Hamlet manages to fool all and retain false madness, murder his once loved companion's father, who also from this went mad, lead a play within a play and finally obtain revenge on his uncle. Only at the sacrifice of roughly every life on stage, not leaving his or his own mothers.
Shakespeare's Hamlet is about Hamlet the prince of Denmark, but in the Stoppard edition, two of his so called friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern think it's about them. .
The play opens with the two very minor characters alone on stage, placing bets on a coin toss while traveling to Elsinore, on the command of King Claudius. Guildenstern (or Rosencrantz) is troubled by the fact that a coin has landed on heads eighty-five times in a row. R&G live in a world in which they do not understand. Not quite sure of where they are going to and pretty much even who they are and where they came from. While waiting for the next instruction, they entertain one another with games such as word play and small stakes. Told by the King to do so, they try to determine whether Hamlet is really mad or just up to mischief, ending up more confused.
Subsequent to Hamlet killing Polonius, R&G are sent off to recover the corpse, but they make a mess of the task.