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Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s iconic play. Through Alain Gauthier’s masterful staging, audiences behold the anguish and tragic spiral of resentment that plague victims of a system in which corruption prevails.
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet ( / ˈhæmlɪt / ), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.
- Ancient Scandinavian Sagas
- Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques
- Montaigne's Essays
- The Literature of Melancholy
Kyd and Shakespeare were the latest spinners of an age-old yarn originating in the ancient sagas of Scandinavia. It was written down in manuscript form in the twelfth century by the Danish scholar, Saxo Grammaticus, in his Historia Danicaand it finally found its way into print in 1514. It is the story of the murder of a Danish ruler by his brother ...
Elizabethan readers gained access to this story, in French, through its inclusion by Francois de Belleforest in his widely read Histoires Tragiquesin 1570. Belleforest made the significant addition of the queen's adultery with her brother-in-law, during her marriage to the king. Kyd's lost dramatic version of Belleforest's account was the next stag...
As he wrote Hamlet, Shakespeare must have found stimulating reading in the works of Montaigne. Hamlet's intellectual curiosity and wide-ranging philosophical questioning ally him with the French essayist. At the time of Hamlet's composition, Montaigne's Essayswere as yet unavailable in translation but we know from other instances of his use of sour...
Hamlet's melancholy would have struck a chord with many Elizabethans - books on melancholy were popular and widely read at the time. One particular example of such a book is Timothy Bright's Treatise on Melancholy, printed in 1586, in which the characteristics of the melancholy man resemble those of Hamlet as he struggles to come to terms with the ...
Hamlet was published in three widely variant versions. The First Quarto (Q1, 1603) was apparently unauthorized, and differs greatly from the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), which may have been based on Shakespeare's own papers.
Kaleidoscope will release Hamlet in UK cinemas in early 2024, and the movie is executive produced by David Gilbery (The Lost Daughter) and Naomi George (My Pure Land).
Explore the production history of Hamlet at the RSC through our interactive timeline. This timeline charts our productions of Hamlet from 1961 to today.
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Hamlet asks why his two friends are there in court, but eventually reveals that he knows they are there to spy on him. Rosencrantz tells him that a group of Hamlet’s favourite group of actors will arrive at court soon, and Polonius reenters to confirm their arrival.
