Friedman wrote: > Branagh's > version was directly from the text [...] Yes, in a sense, but remember that Branagh's "official text" is a conflation of different versions of the play, namely the second quarto and the 1623 Folio. And most stage productions, including (and especially) those in Elizabethan/Jacobean England, routinely cut significant chunks of longer plays... -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu