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Svend Gade Hamlet (1920)

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In Svend Gade's film version, we are never shown a scene on the castle ramparts. Instead, much of the information that Shakespeare gives us in 1.4 and 1.5 appears in the film in altered form and in other contexts. Actions merely described in the text are sometimes enacted in the film; and sometimes specific moments in the play inspire entirely new scenes and sequences.


(1.5.49 - 64)
While Hamlet speaks with her father, Claudius enters and kisses Gertrude's hand.
"Ay that incestuous, that adulterate beast."




(1.5.48 - 64)
Hamlet observes her mother and Claudius together and begins to distrust her uncle.
"O my prophetic soul! My uncle?"




(1.5.49 - 64)
In this version, Claudius and Gertrude begin their liason before Old Hamlet’s death.
"Ay that incestuous, that adulterate beast."




(1.5.187 - 188)
At school in Wittenberg, Hamlet and Horatio seem interested in more than just their studies.
"There are more things in heauen and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."




(1.5.52; 1.5.42 - 64)
Claudius enlists Gertrude's help in his plot to murder Old Hamlet.
"Won to this shameful lust/ The will of my most seeming virtuous queen."




(1.5.46; 1.5.43 - 64)
While Gertrude stands guard, Claudius gets an actual serpent from the Pit of Poison Adders.
"The serpent that did sting thy fathers life,/ Now wears his crown."




(1.4.94; 1.4.8 - 126)
When Hamlet receives news of her father's death, her fellow schoolmates attempt to restrain her flight.
"Unhand me Gentlemen:/ By Heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."




(1.4.9; 1.4.8 - 18)
Claudius reigns over a court filled with drunken revelry.
"The King doth wake tonight, and takes his rouse,/ Keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels."




(1.5.28; 1.5.s.d. - 98)
 
While Hamlet mourns her father, a voice from the tomb calls for revenge.
"If thou didst euer thy dear father love. . . . Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."




(1.5.129; 1.5.120 - 212)
Horatio attempts to share in Hamlet’s grief.
"Hor. Good my Lord, tell it./ Ham. No you will reveal it."




(1.4.9; 1.4.8 -18)
A grieving Hamlet observes Claudius's revels.
"The King doth wake tonight, and takes his rouse,/ Keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels."




(1.5.100; 1.5.99 - 119)
Observing Claudius's revels, Hamlet is prompted to avenge her father.
"Oh fie, hold my heart. . . . Now to my word."




(1.5.43 - 64)
The castle gardener tells Hamlet he found an adder next to the body.
"'Tis given out, that sleeping in my orchard,/ A serpent stung me."




(1.5.48; 1.5.43 - 119)
Hamlet finds her uncle's dagger at the Pit of Poison Adders.
"O my prophetic soul! My uncle?"




(1.5.191; 1.5.99 - 212)
Hamlet shares her suspicions and her plan with Horatio.
"As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an Antic disposition on."