Finally, in a period when most plays ran for two hours or so, the full text of Hamlet — Shakespeare's longest play, with 4, 042 lines, totalling 29, 551 words — takes over four hours to deliver.

* September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.

* William Duer James, MD, son of William Daniel and Lillian D. James, born in Hamlet 29 October 1916.

But it was Taganka's Hamlet ( premiered on November 29, 1971 ) that finally provided Vysotsky with his worthiest reason for celebration.

* Hamlet ( Donmar West End ; 29 May 2009 – 22 August 2009 )

* The Boston Sunday Globe, April 29, 1990: " Irving Fiske, noted for essays, modern version of Hamlet ; at 82.

* The Boston Sunday Globe, April 29, 1990: “ Irving Fiske, noted for essays, modern version of Hamlet ; at 82 .” by Kevin Dotson, Contributing Reporter

In May 2009, Hamlet opened with Jude Law in the title role at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre.

In May 1862, he made his Boston debut, playing nightly at the Boston Museum in Richard III ( May 12, 15, and 23 ), Romeo and Juliet ( May 13 ), The Robbers ( May 14 and 21 ), Hamlet ( May 16 ), The Apostate ( May 19 ), The Stranger ( May 20 ), and The Lady of Lyons ( May 22 ).

* May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.

On 20 May, Sarah premiered her most controversial part, the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in a prose adaptation which she had commissioned from Eugène Morand and Marcel Schwob.

On Sunday, May 16, 2010, a dedication ceremony and celebration was hosted by the Town of Clarkstown for the Valley Cottage Hamlet Green.

In May 2009, Law returned to the London stage to portray the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre.

Michael Anthony Quick ( born May 14, 1959 in Hamlet, North Carolina ) is a former American football wide receiver who played his entire career with the Philadelphia Eagles ( 1982-1990 ).

* Last Night of Shakespeare Season: scenes from Hamlet, Richard II, Taming of The Shrew, May 20, 1935

In May 1922 Hamlet assumed command of at Honolulu, Hawaii and took her on a cruise through the Far East on the way to her new homeport of Boston, Massachusetts.

The new theater was completed in 1963 in time for the May 7 opening of Hamlet.

He bade adieu to the stage as Hamlet at Covent Garden, May 30, 1832.

And in August 2007, as an RSC Honorary Artist, he returned to Stratford for the first time in over 40 years to play Sir John Falstaff in the Courtyard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 which were part of the RSC Histories Cycle – making him the only British actor to have played Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff in major theatrical productions.

* August 24-Samuel Pepys sees the new production of Hamlet by Sir William Davenant's troupe of actors, the Duke's Company, with the innovation of stage scenery.

Her period in Vienna closed on August 10, 1873 in a farewell performance, in which she played Ophelia in the very first performance of Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet at the Vienna Court Opera.

* Laroche, Hermann, " The concert on 11 August at Pavlovsk, Tchaikovsky's Manfred and Hamlet.

Harry Gabriel Hamlet ( August 27, 1874-January 24, 1954 ) served as the seventh Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, from 1932 to 1936.

He was also an acclaimed stage actor, perhaps best-remembered for playing Horatio to Maximillian Schell's Hamlet in 1960's Munich August Festival and a subsequent television adaptation.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

Later performers to play Hamlet at the castle included Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Christopher Plummer, Derek Jacobi, and in 2009 Jude Law.

In 2009, the city of Hamlet dedicated a new building to the Tornado steam engine locomotive — the first one in the State of North Carolina.

In January 2010 at the Critics ' Circle Theatre Awards ceremony he was presented with the John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his 2009 Hamlet.

Telos Press Publishing has also published English translations of Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth ( 2003 ), Theory of the Partisan ( 2007 ), and Hamlet or Hecuba ( 2009 ).

Among his best known film scores are Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ), And the Band Played On ( 1993 ), Conspiracy Theory ( 1997 ), Hamlet ( 2000 ), The Spanish Prisoner ( 1997 ), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ), In Bruges ( 2008 ), Twilight ( 2008 ) Where The Wild Things Are ( 2009 ), The Blind Side ( 2009 ), and Breaking Dawn Part 1 ( 2011 ).

Past shows include Twelfth Night ( 2004 ), Henry IV, Part I ( 2005 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 2006 ), The Tempest ( 2007 ), Romeo and Juliet ( 2008 ), Macbeth ( 2009 ), The Comedy of Errors ( 2010 ) and Hamlet ( 2011 )

* 2009 – Jude Law for Hamlet

Borchardt also starred in Modus Operandi ( 2009 ), played a gravedigger in the partially animated comedy Hamlet A. D. D.

* 2009: Hamlet

British cinema's growing international reputation was enhanced by the success of The Red Shoes, the most commercially successful film of its year in the U. S., and by Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

It leads Hamlet to a secluded place, claims that it is the actual spirit of his father, and discloses that he — the elder Hamlet — was murdered by his brother Claudius pouring poison in his ear.

Polonius is Claudius's trusted chief counsellor ; Polonius's son, Laertes, is returning to France, and Polonius's daughter, Ophelia, is courted by Hamlet.

Shortly afterward, Ophelia is alarmed by Hamlet's strange behaviour, reporting to her father that Hamlet rushed into her room, stared at her, and said nothing.

Claudius, now fearing for his life, finds a legitimate excuse to get rid of the prince: he sends Hamlet to England on a diplomatic pretext, accompanied ( and closely watched ) by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Claudius convinces Laertes that Hamlet is solely responsible ; then news arrives that Hamlet is still alive — a story is spread that his ship was attacked by pirates on the way to England, and he has returned to Denmark.

Hamlet avenged his father by killing his uncle ( Artist: Gustave Moreau date unknown )

Distraught at the lack of ceremony ( due to the actually-deemed suicide ) and overcome by emotion, Laertes leaps into the grave, cursing Hamlet as the cause of her death.

Horatio attempts to kill himself with the same poisoned wine but is stopped by Hamlet, so he will be the only one left alive to give a full account of the story.

Consequently, there is no direct evidence that Kyd wrote it, nor any evidence that the play was not an early version of Hamlet by Shakespeare himself.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

The latest date estimate is based on an entry, of 26 July 1602, in the Register of the Stationers ' Company, indicating that Hamlet was " latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne his servantes ".

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

The 2006 publication by Arden Shakespeare of different Hamlet texts in different volumes is perhaps the best evidence of this shifting focus and emphasis.

The clearest alleged instance of existentialism is in the " to be, or not to be " speech, where Hamlet is thought by some to use " being " to allude to life and action, and " not being " to death and inaction.

Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist, Montaigne.