HAMLET by William Shakespeare

 

Shakespeare Complete has the complete guide to Shakespeare's Hamlet - fact sheets, guides to books, films, study, audio and worldwide theatre productions.  Browse our Hamlet Fact Sheets for clear and easy to use information on characters, plot outline, performance history, Hamlet on film, sources and timelines. Use our Guides to find the best currently available Hamlet books, dvds, cds, audiobooks, downloads, study guides, notes, teaching aids, critical works and stage performances. 

books

.HAMLET

books and versions of the text including a fact sheet on the publication history of Hamlet, the quartos and folio editions and a guide to current publications of the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

   

HAMLET

Quick Key Facts:

Written between 1599 and 1600

Probably First Performed at The Globe or Oxford between 1600 and 1602  

Published in First Quarto - 1603

Second Quarto - 1604/5

First Folio - 1623 

Total Lines in Play - 4024 lines

Longest part - Hamlet 1495 lines

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film  

 HAMLET

on film - dvd, download and video - including a fact sheet on Hamlet Film History and a guide to currently available films, movies and adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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HAMLET FILMS 

Browse a huge selection of movie Hamlets, including Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson & versions by Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev, Peter Brook, Feng Xiaogang and Tom Stoppard. 

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theatre

HAMLET

theatre and stage productions including a fact sheet on Performance History, a guide to current and forthcoming worldwide productions, an archive of recent stagings and a guide to books on acting and staging Hamlet.

Hamlet Quote

'...Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning?...'

Act V Scene 1

study

   HAMLET

study guides, student notes, teaching aids and critical works on Shakespeare's Hamlet including fact sheets on characters, plot and sources, along with a guide to currently available Hamlet study guides.

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audio

 HAMLET

audiobooks on cd, download, MP3 and cassette of Shakespeare's Hamlet including a guide to currently available Hamlet audiobooks.

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