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Hamlet (1603) [Play]
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Summary :

Learning that his father has been killed by Claudio, his uncle, Hamlet's only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet's nature tends not towards action but reflection and, in his incapacity to act, lies the seed of his own destruction

Original title: Hamlet
Original languages: English

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Genre: Drama and Plays→ English→ Elizabethan

This work has been adapted as the following works :
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) [Play]
Author: Tom Stoppard
Fifteen Minute Hamlet, the (1978) [Play]
Author: Tom Stoppard
Gertrude and Claudius (2000) [Novel]
Author: John Updike
Dating Hamlet (2002) [Novel]
Author: Lisa Fiedler
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2004) [Picture Book]
Author: Bruce Coville
Ophelia (2006) [Novel]
Author: Lisa Klein
Hamlet's Father (2008) [Novella]
Author: Orson Scott Card
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Complete Works of Shakespeare (1951) [Omnibus Volume]
Author: William Shakespeare

Links:

Amleth, Prince of Denmark :: A story from the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus. Part of D. L. Ashliman's collection of folklore and mythology electronic texts
Hamlet (1996) :: IMDB movie link.

Hamlet (1998)

Edition Details (From the publisher):

-An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater
-Special introduction to the play by the editor
-A note on the three early texts of Hamlet
-Dramatic criticism from the past and present
-A comprehensive stage and screen history
-Text, notes, and commentaries
-List of recommended readings