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Shakespeare wrote a stageplay and Zeffirelli (and Christopher de Vore) wrote a screenplay. Shakespeare's is meant to be acted on stage; Zefirelli's was meant to be made into a movie, which of course it was.

A screenplay has a lot fewer words for the actors to speak than a stageplay of the same length and more instructions about what the viewer of the movie should see. I cannot find a copy of Zefirelli's screenplay (they do not tend to get circulated) but I expect it to be full of stuff like "EXT: a field outside the castle. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on horses approach Hamlet, who is on foot."

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