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
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)
Prince Hamlet
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Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew of the usurping Claudius, and son of King Hamlet, the previous King of
Hamlet
…is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother…
Portrait of Hamlet by William Morris Hunt, c. 1864
A statue of Hamlet with the skull of Yorick in Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet reclines next to Ophelia in Edwin Austin Abbey's The Play Scene in Hamlet (1897)
Marcellus, Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost by Henry Fuseli