This dissertation critically analyzes two dramatic works: Ham-let, directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, and Ensaio.Hamlet, directed by Enrique Diaz. It reflects about the different ways in which these two plays transform and renovate the Shakespeare s classic in the context of the so-called Postdramatic theater, a milieu that favors fragmentary, hybrid works, open to the research of new languages and to performing interferences. The main theoretical framework is the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, emphasizing the reflections they developed on the relationship between art and becoming. It is argued that the two stagings instantiate, in different ways, the procedure of minoring a major work, such as described by Deleuze in his work on the dramaturgy of Carmelo Bene. In addition to presenting and discussing general convergences and differences in the strategies of minoration adopted by the two directors, this dissertation also includes a specific address to the places occupied by Ophelia in each case, assuming that this character can be productively taken as a force of minoration already at work in Shakespeare s play. The concept of translation as trancreation, from Brazilian poet and essayist Haroldo de Campos, and the concept of essay, from German philosopher Theodor Adorno, are also theoretical references used in the research.