Hamlet in performance
Videos
Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been performed many times since the beginning of the 17th century.
French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, in a publicity postcard from the end of the 19th century. Hamlet has been a popular breeches role.
Print of William Pelby playing Hamlet in an 1826 production at Drury Lane.
David Garrick as Hamlet in 1769. The iconographic hand gesture expresses his shock at the first sight of the ghost.
Prince Hamlet
Videos
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 in performance
…French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, in a publicity postcard from the end of the 19th century. Hamlet has been a popular breeches role. Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been performed…
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