Shakespeare uses a problem that seriously threatened Elizabethan/ Jacobean security: the prevalence of pirates. Hamlet's return is a dramatic device providing a deus ex machina (a contrived solution to a problem) for the play's plot.
After he has made the delivery, Horatio is to come immediately to meet Hamlet Hamlet tells his friend that he has much news to share. The other letters, says Hamlet's first letter, are for Horatio to deliver to the King. He has, in return, promised to do them a favor. In the ensuing battle, the pirates took Hamlet captive they treated him well and brought him back to Denmark.
The first letter tells Horatio that pirates beset the ship on which Hamlet was being carried to England. The particular intensity and nerves of this is probably the same kind of thing that excites a real audience in a real theatre.Horatio receives letters from a sailor sent by Hamlet. "You get the immediacy of a live production of Hamlet on Broadway in the nervousness of the actors, knowing that they can't go back on it, that this is for all time, unlike films, where you can if you make a mistake go back and do it again. This performance differs from other recordings of Hamlet, not only because of Burton and Gielgud, but because it is a live recording of an actual performance on Broadway, not in a recording studio. 25 years after the stage production, Burton's widow allowed this audio recording to be made from her copy. At Burton's insistence, after screening the film for just two days, all copies were destroyed except for one that went to the British Film Institute and one that went to Burton's home. Given the importance of the show, a film was made of a single performance.
But the show that created the most excitement was Richard Burton's Noel Coward, Arthur Miller and Alec Guinness were also on the Great White Way that year. It was the year of Carol Channing'sīarefoot in the Park.
Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Richard Burton, was recorded in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City during a spectacular season for Broadway.
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