Hamlet (1996) Body Count Breakdown

Hamlet (1996) Body Count Breakdown by MrThePandaman

[CHARACTER KILLS]

Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)- 3
Claudius (Derek Jacobi)- 1
Queen Gertrude (Julie Christie)- 1
Ophelia (Kate Winslet)- 1
Laertes (Michael Maloney)- 1

[CORPSE BREAKDOWN]

The ghost’s story: 1
-Claudius poisons Old King Hamlet

Accidental murder: 1
-Hamlet stabs Polonius to death

Bad news: 1
-Ophelia accidentally drowns herself (though it could also be interpreted as suicide)

Ophelia’s burial: 1
-Hamlet sees Yorick’s skull

The Fight: 7
-Queen Gertrude accidentally drinks poison
-Hamlet cuts Laertes with a poisoned sword
-Hamlet throws a sword into Claudius, hits him with a chandelier, and makes him drink poison
-Osric gets stabbed by one of Fortinbras’s soldiers
-Hamlet dies of a wound from Laertes’s poisoned sword
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are mentioned as dead

[THE UNCONFIRMED AND UNCOUNTED]

Fortinbras’s men beat up several of King Claudius’s soldiers, but there’s never any blood or heavy indication they were killed.

[THE FINAL TALLY = 11]