English Renaissance theatre
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The English Renaissance theatre or Elizabethan theatre was the theatre of England from 1558 to 1642. Its most prominent playwrights were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.
Nathan Field, who began his acting career as a boy player
Gorboduc TP 1565
Panorama of the interior of the Globe Theatre, London
Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the p
English Renaissance theatre
…The audiences particularly liked revenge dramas, such as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's greatest (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth) were composed during this period. Comedies were common, too. A subgenre developed in this period was the city comedy…
Hamlet portrayed by Edwin Booth (c. 1870)
Kronborg Castle is immortalised as Elsinore in the play Hamlet
Hamlet mistakenly stabs Polonius (Artist: Coke Smyth, 19th century).
The gravedigger scene. (Artist: Eugène Delacroix, 1839)