What next? Discover some facts about Macbeth, another one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.

Hamlet has inspired many great writers, including Charles Dickens, James Joyce and Iris Murdoch.

Many actors have performed the title role including: Ralph Fiennes, Richard Burton, Mel Gibson, Keanu Reeves, Jude Law, Christopher Walken, Ian McKellen, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Tennant, Ethan Hawke, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, presented through May 21 by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, at 7 South.

Some people believe that the character of Polonius was based on William Cecil, chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. This thrilling Hamlet is the cherry on the top of the season.

Some of the characters in Hamlet are: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Horatio, Laertes and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Most experts agree that Shakespeare wrote the role of Hamlet for Richard Burbage, one of the top Elizabethan actors.

The storyline of Hamlet was, in part, taken from Saxon legend of Amleth as retold by Francois de Belleforest (a scholar of the 1700s).

Since 1879, it been performed more than any other Shakespeare play by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Today, it is one of the most performed plays. Harold Bloom loftily credited William Shakespeare the writer with 'the invention of the human.' But Shakespeare the character in Bill Cains world premiere comedy 'Gods Spies,' sequestered by.

It is thought that, when Shakespeare was alive, Hamlet was one of his most popular plays. A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncle’s guilt.

Claudius murdered Hamlet’s father and married Hamlet’s father. The play is about the revenge Prince Hamlet is urged to carry out by the ghost of his father on Claudius, his uncle.Hamlet is the longest of Shakespeare’s plays.The exact date of when it was written is not known, but experts estimate that it must have been penned between 15.The full title of the play is The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Here are some facts about William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet.

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