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14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England

I don't know what to do with this one without leaning heavily on stuff happening between scenes. So they recapture Hamlet, and this time he actually reveals where the body is. It won't be there, but there's no body discovery scene so we're in the clear. Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed, which means last time it was just regular banishment.

13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"

Yeah, this works fine. No one said he's going off to England immediately.

12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates

This still works.

11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"

It's funny imagining all of that happening before even the wedding banquet. Claudius made two attempts to get rid of Hamlet on the sly, knowing that officially he must ask him to stay. Fate would not keep Hamlet away from this wedding banquet. The hardest thing to square is Hamlet learning about the ghost after already seeing it. The ghost lead him away many scenes ago, and we've been left hanging. Could we accept, the ghost erased his memory and he's now a sleeper agent? This is the new explanation for Hamlet's irrational behaviour, both in the actual play and introduced by the new scene order.

10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns

But why? Polonius is alive! He was still murdered once so fair point, and maybe Polonius himself is handling it a lot better than his children are.

Alternatively, Polonius is both alive and dead in quantum superposition, and the trauma of this knowledge is overwhelming, but let's not that get into that at this stage.

I'm not amending anything, but there's actually a very simple explanation for Polonius being back that I can't believe I didn't think of earlier: the wound turned out not to be fatal. It wouldn't square this scene, and it's not without its own problems, but I still should have thought of something so simple.

9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap

This is fine. There's actually a lot that's fine just because Hamlet's actions aren't consistent even in a more traditional order.

8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch

Haha idk - ghost memory wipe. It's a bad copout and I hate it. We can have multiple ghosts if it helps, and with the ambiguity of what the ghost is already part of the play, it would be appropriate. Whatever, ghosts don't have to make sense.
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