Hamlet (1603) [Play]
by William Shakespeare
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Summary
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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
Quotes:
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
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.
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