Editing Hamlet (1996 film) (section)

===Text===
The film uses a conflated text based on the 1623 [[First Folio]], with additions from the [[Second Quarto]] and amendments from other sources. According to a note appended to the published screenplay:

{{blockquote|The screenplay is based on the text of ''Hamlet'' as it appears in the First Folio – the edition of Shakespeare's plays collected by his theatrical associates Heminges and Condell and published in 1623 by a syndicate of booksellers. Nothing has been cut from this text, and some passages absent from it (including the soliloquy "How all occasions do inform against me ...") have been supplied from the Second Quarto (an edition of the play which exists in copies dated 1604 and 1605). We have also incorporated some readings of words and phrases from this source and from other early printed texts, and in a few cases emendations from modern editors of the play. Thus in I, 4, in the passage (from the Second Quarto) about the "dram of eale", we use an emendation from the Oxford edition of the ''Complete Works'' (edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, 1988): "doth all the noble substance ''over-daub''" – rather than the original's "of a doubt".<ref>Branagh, Kenneth (1996), ''"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare: Screenplay and Introduction by Kenneth Branagh; production diary by Russell Jackson'' (New York: W W Norton), p.174.  {{ISBN|0393045196}}</ref>}}