''Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven'' - Kindly forgive me, please, that I find it necessary to point something out to the reader.  It concerns how this line is correctly acted.  As a prerequisite, one must fathom that Elizabethan times were not Victorian times.

''Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven'' - Kindly forgive me, please, that I find it necessary to point something out to the reader.  It concerns how this line is correctly acted.  As a prerequisite, one must fathom that Elizabethan times were not Victorian times.

''steep' -

Laertes is standing to Ophelia's right.  The ship on which Laertes will leave is to his right, and he is glancing that way, since he knows its time he should be going, and he is not looking constantly at Ophelia, to his left.