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
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
Polonius
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Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the chief counsellor of the play's ultimate villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Generally regarded as wrong in
Polonius Behind the Curtain by Jehan Georges Vibert, 1868
Engraving of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, possible inspiration for Polonius, with Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Walsingham (William Faithorne, 1655)
A stained glass representation of Polonius