* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

* " Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane " w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

# " Hamlet / It Was a Very Good Year " ( Ervin Drake, Don Ralke ) – 7: 45

* My Dad Was Not Hamlet, Institute for Policy Studies, 1993-A book of poems

") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a " malcontent ," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the " Melancholy Dane.

Alexander Dane is an accomplished British actor whose name — or stage name ?-- reflects his experience in Shakespearean theatre (" the melancholy Dane " is a well-known description of Hamlet ).

The AP called this " one of the slickest political maneuvers in international athletic history ", and wrote that the Games would now be " like Hamlet without the celebrated Dane in the cast.

The castle was the setting of the televised holiday series Jul på Kronborg (), which featured both Hamlet and Ogier the Dane.

In 1964, his performance of the Gloomy Dane in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore garnered his second Emmy nomination.

The pets quickly notice differences, including a new group of animals staying there ( a weasel, two cats named Felony and Miss Demeanor, a sad Great Dane named Hamlet, a pair of homesick dogs, and a parrot named Ditto ).

* The Dane, a term for Prince Hamlet of Denmark, a character in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet

So key was he to the Blues that one writer observed, " The Maroons without Dunlap are like the play of Hamlet without the melancholy Dane.

At the end of the play, Horatio proposes to finish off the poisoned drink which was intended for Hamlet, saying that he is ' more an antique Roman than a Dane ', but the dying prince implores Horatio not to drink from the cup and bids his friend to live and help put things right in Denmark ; " If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, / Absent thee from felicity a while, / And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain / To tell my story.

Elsinore seems to lie in a range of Mycenae, and the fate of Orestes resounds in that of Hamlet.

We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.

Similarly the sufferings of Hamlet, Othello, or Phedre engage the fortunes of the state.

I realized that Hamlet was faced with an entirely different problem, but his agony could have been no greater.

The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.

* Shakespeare's Hamlet is an anagram for the Danish Prince Amleth.

The ( male ) speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of Hamlet, craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.

French stage and early film actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, ca.

To the horror of the assembled Party officials, however, someone with, " a young and deeply anguished voice ," began reciting Pasternak's banned poem Hamlet.

Spirits in other Shakespeare plays — notably Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream — exist in ambiguous forms, occasionally even calling into question their own presence.

In 1987, Benedict took the title role of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Abbey Theatre.

It is known internationally for its castle Kronborg, where William Shakespeare's play Hamlet is set.

The play Hamlet has been performed a number of times in its courtyard.

* William Shakespeare's play Hamlet takes place at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, from whence the English spelling " Elsinore " derived.

* In the 1983 comedy Strange Brew, which is loosely based on Hamlet, the protagonists are given jobs at Elsinore Brewery.

File: The Play Scene in Hamlet. jpg | The play scene in Hamlet, oil on canvas, 1897

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.

' Heggy ' Hegazi, an Egyptian forward, was one of the first non-British players to appear in the Football League, though he only played one game for Fulham in 1911, marked with a goal afterwards playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet.

* William F. Hansen, published 1983, title: Saxo Grammaticus and the life of Hamlet

Certain aspects of Gesta Danorum formed the basis for William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.

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.

Saxo ’ s version, told of in Book 3 and 4, is very similar to that of Shakespeare ’ s Hamlet.

However, while Hamlet dies in Shakespeare's version just after his uncle's death, in Saxo's version Amleth survives and begins ruling his kingdom, going on to other adventures.

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

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.

When the existing stock of pre-civil war plays was divided between the two newly created patent theatre companies, Hamlet was the only Shakespearean favourite that Sir William Davenant's Duke's Company secured.

William Shakespeare: Hamlet.

* Quillian, William H. Hamlet and the New Poetic: James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.

William Shakespeare, " Hamlet ".

William Shakespeare is the most-quoted writer, with Hamlet his most-quoted work.

The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet who are childhood friends of the prince, focusing on their actions with the events of Hamlet as background.

Titles like " Fedra West " ( also called Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ) and Johnny Hamlet signify the connection to the Greek myth and possibly the plays by Euripides and Racine and the play by William Shakespeare, respectively.

Examples include the critical importance of a river in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and the drowning of Ophelia in Hamlet.

* Spring – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and was added to UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list on November 30, 2000.

Kronborg is known by many also as " Elsinore ," the setting of William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Hamlet was performed in the castle for the first time to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, with a cast consisting of soldiers from the castle garrison.

At the same time Andrzej Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including such as Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain ( 1959 ), Hamlet ( 1960 ), and Two for the Seesaw ( 1963 ) by William Gibson.

* In the 1956 essay Hamlet oder Hekuba: der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel ( Hamlet or Hecuba: the Irruption of Time into the Play ), the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt suggests that elements of the Earl's biography, in particular his final days and last words, were incorporated into William Shakespeare's Hamlet at both the level of dialogue and the level of characterization.

In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.

In 1827, Berlioz watched Irish actress Harriet Smithson at the Odéon theatre playing Ophelia and Juliet in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.