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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.

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Genre
Shakespearean tragedy
Based on
Legend of Amleth (Gesta Danorum) · The Spanish Tragedy · Ur-Hamlet · See: Sources of Hamlet
Characters
Hamlet · Claudius · Gertrude · Polonius · Ophelia
Date
c. 1599–1601
Original language
Early Modern English
Setting
Elsinore, other parts of Denmark

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Hamlet

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related to Secondary sources · 688
Hamlet → Abbeville Press, About, Accents, Aeschylus, Aimee, Al Hirschfeld, Alan, Alexander, America, American, American Journal, American Mind, American Shakespeare Center, American Theatre, Amsterdam, An Oxford Guide, An Unofficial Biography, And Is Now Sold, Andrew, Andrew Scott
related to Editions of Hamlet · 63
Hamlet → Advanced, Albert, Ann, Arden Shakespeare, Barnet, Barrons Educational Series, Bate, Bernard, Blakemore, Bloomsbury, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cengage Learning, Clarendon Press, Compact, Complete Works, Denmark, Edwards, Eric, Evans
related to Texts · 44
Hamlet → Anne, Annotated, April, Archived, Common Core, Denmark, Denmarke, Edward Blount, Etext, F1, First Folio, First Quarto, Folger Shakespeare LibraryHamlet, Gutenberg, Hamlet Prince, In, Internet Shakespeare Editions, Isaac Jaggard, James I's, James Roberts
related to Sources · 43
Hamlet → Ambales Saga, Amleth, Amlodi, Amlóði, Arabia, Belleforest, Brutus, Byzantium, François, French, Gesta Danorum, Hamlet-like, Helgi, Histoires, Hroar, Hrolf Kraki, Icelandic, In, Indo-European, Italy
related to Restoration and 18th century · 37
Hamlet → Alexander Sumarokov, Although, America's, American Company's, Chestnut Street Theatre, Claudius's, Company, Dane, Davenant, David Garrick, Drury Lane, Eastern European, His, In, It, John Philip Kemble, Lewis Hallam Jr, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, New York, North America
related to 19th century · 33
Hamlet → Abraham Lincoln, America, Booth, Charles Kemble, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth, Edwin Booth's Hamlet, Fifth Avenue Theatre, From, George Bernard Shaw's, George Frederick Cooke, Henry Irving, In, Irving, John Wilkes Booth, Johnston Forbes-Robertson's, Junius Brutus Booth, Kean, London, Lyceum
related to 21st century · 30
Hamlet → Actors, Angela Winkler, Ben Whishaw, Christian Camargo, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Elsinore Castle, England, English-speaking, In, In October, Jude Law, London, Maxine Peake, May, Michael Sheen, Michael Urie, New York, Oscar Isaac, Paapa Essiedu
related to Language · 27
Hamlet → At, Baldassare Castiglione's, But, Claudius's, English, Greek, Hamlet's, He, Horatio, However Harold Jenkins, In, Much, Of, Ophelia, Ophelia's, Osric, Pauline Kiernan, Polonius, Shakespeare, She
related to Shakespeare's day to the Interregnum · 24
Hamlet → Charles, Elizabethan, Falstaff, Firm, George Hibbard, Germany, Globe, He, Henry IV Part, It, James, John Payne Collier, Judging, Lord Chamberlain's Men, More, Oxford, Pericles, Red Dragon, Richard Burbage, Richard III
related to 20th century · 23
Hamlet → Apart, Craig, Craig's, Edward Gordon Craig, Hamlet's, In, Japan, Kabuki, Konstantin Stanislavski, London, Moscow Art Theatre's, Nō, Otojirō Kawakami's, Shingeki, Shinpa, Stanislavski, The, This, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Tsuneari Fukuda's

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shakespeare isbn play new shakespeare's london theatre ed ophelia hamlet's press claudius university cambridge production first york role text retrieved

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HamletBased onLegend of Amleth (Gesta Danorum)1.00infobox
HamletBased onThe Spanish Tragedy1.00infobox
HamletBased onUr-Hamlet1.00infobox
HamletBased onSee: Sources of Hamlet1.00infobox
HamletCharactersHamlet1.00infobox
HamletCharactersClaudius1.00infobox
HamletCharactersGertrude1.00infobox
HamletCharactersPolonius1.00infobox
HamletCharactersOphelia1.00infobox
HamletCharactersLaertes1.00infobox
HamletCharactersHoratio1.00infobox
HamletDatec. 1599–16011.00infobox
HamletGenreShakespearean tragedy1.00infobox
HamletOriginal languageEarly Modern English1.00infobox
HamletSettingElsinore, other parts of Denmark1.00infobox
HamletWritten byWilliam Shakespeare1.00infobox
Hamletis aearly work by Shakespeare0.90text
Hamletis acentral character's changed perception of his mother as a whore because of her failure to remain faithful to Old Hamlet0.90text

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