inside these huge spaces while tons of snow lie on the ground outside; to say nothing of why they are also so well lit in a region where there is little daylight in winter and in a period (admittedly indefinite) when there was no electric light. In the scenes set in Hamlet's library, for example, the wintry daylight is most effective but no one appears to feel cold. But the far greater problem is that the 70 mm. widescreen film seems more intent on showing, in brilliant detail, every inch of the interiors and the breadth and depth of the forecourt of Blenheim Palace than on telling this story.
At times the play places constraints on the director that result in distracting anachronisms. For example, the uniforms derived from nineteenth-century styles, though unconvincing, would not be particularly problematic except that the Ghost appears in "the very armor [the King] had on / When he the ambitious Norway combated" (1.1.60-61) even though no one else is in the attire of a period at least 300 years earl
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