Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

: See also Literary influence of Hamlet

In contrast, Goethe's Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, written between 1776 and 1796, not only has a production of Hamlet at its core but also creates parallels between the Ghost and Wilhelm Meister's dead father.

There have also been several films that transposed the general storyline of Hamlet or elements thereof to other settings.

There have also been many films which included performances of scenes from Hamlet as a play-within-a-film.

He also appeared in the plays Henry Sweet Henry ( 1967 ), Your Own Thing, Rockabye Hamlet ( 1975 – 76, Laertes ), More Than You Deserve, Sunset, and All Bets Off.

Similar " prodigal son " stories followed, including Chuck Moll, Keoma, The Return of Ringo, The Forgotten Pistolero, One Thousand Dollars on the Black, Johnny Hamlet and also Seven Dollars on the Red ( where the hero is a father ).

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.

The latter also inspired Dust in the Sun, which follows its original more closely than Johnny Hamlet, where the hero survives.

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

He also found the time for an intensive programme of writing and research, which produced the first of what were to be many significant contributions to psychoanalytic literature, notably monographs on Hamlet and On the Nightmare.

He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ( appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film Hamlet ) and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks (' The Colonel ') in the British television series Follyfoot from 1971 to 1973.

Tree also mounted critically acclaimed productions of Hamlet ( 1892 ), Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1896 ) and The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1889 ), establishing himself as a Shakespearean leading man.

") in Hamlet, a work also concerned with the shifty nature of reality.

He is also mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid and in five plays by William Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing, Titus Andronicus, and As You Like It, where he joins the couples at the end —

From references in other contemporary works, Kyd is also assumed to have been the writer of an early, lost version of Hamlet ( the so-called Ur-Hamlet ), with a play-within-a-play interlude.

Hamlet also serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title.

During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as Ophelia, opposite John Gielgud's legendary Hamlet, and Katherine, opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V. In the 1930s, she also worked in a couple of British films.

Hamlet is also home to the National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame, a striking collection of artifacts from the Seaboard Air Line Railroad spanning decades of time.

Dulwich is also home to Dulwich Hamlet, an amateur football club set up in 1893 and still competing in the Isthmian League today, they ground share with another Non-League football club Fisher F. C.

He has also written the play The Spook Who Spoke, meant to be understood as a precursor of Hamlet.

He also played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

* Bethel Corners ( also called " Bethel ") – A Hamlet near the north town line on NY-34.

: The Hamlet of Mycenae in Onondaga County was also historically sometimes known as " Hartsville ".

Oxford editor George Hibbard argues that, since the contemporary literature contains many allusions and references to Hamlet ( only Falstaff is mentioned more, from Shakespeare ), the play was surely performed with a frequency that the historical record misses.

The title characters are able to make a life-changing decision when they discover that their letter contains an order to kill Hamlet.

This, however, is a standard feature of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations ; his Hamlet contains many non-speaking walk-on roles that are not included in the original play, but are mentioned in the cast list.

* The Interpretation of Murder ( 2006 ) by Jed Rubenfield contains a discussion with Sigmund Freud about the Astor Place Riot in which he suggests that theater goers rioted over whether Hamlet should be a feminine or masculine character.

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.

Other echoes, cinematic and literary, that critics have detected in the film include William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning ( one of Leigh's favourite films ).

Trinculo in The Tempest, the First Grave-digger in Hamlet and Marplot in Susanna Centlivre's The Busybody, were among his many favourite parts.

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 four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's greatest ( Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth ) were composed during this period, as well as many others ( see Shakespearean tragedy ).

Kyd is more generally accepted to have been the author of a Hamlet, the precursor of the Shakespearean play ( see: Ur-Hamlet ).

He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III.

* 2001-Won London Critics ' Circle Theatre Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for Hamlet

In addition to his many Shakespearean roles ( Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night ), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard.

As well as recording his own film music in Phase 4 Stereo he made LPs of movie scores by others, such as " Great Shakespearean Films " ( music by Shostakovich for Hamlet, Walton for Richard III and Rózsa for Julius Caesar ), and " Great British Film Music " ( movie scores by Lambert, Bax, Benjamin, Walton, Vaughan Williams, and Bliss ).

His plays were based on the subjects taken from Russian history ( Dmitry Samozvanets ), proto-Russian legends ( Khorev ) or on Shakespearean plots ( Makbet, Hamlet ).

Gielgud directed other actors in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably Richard Burton as Hamlet ( 1964 ), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1950 ), and Paul Scofield as the title role in Richard II ( 1952 ).

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

Also worth noting is that composer William Walton, who had scored Olivier's three Shakespearean films ( Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III ) came out of retirement to write the title music for the show, although this was only used for the first two series and then replaced by a new theme by Stephen Oliver.

Typical blackface acts of the period were short burlesques, often with mock Shakespearean titles like " Hamlet the Dainty ", " Bad Breath, the Crane of Chowder ", " Julius Sneezer ", or " Dars-de-Money ".

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet, Henry VI, Part 1, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus are mentioned in the diary.

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.

Because Nashe apparently alludes to Thomas Kyd in the same passage, and because of similarities between the Shakespearean Hamlet and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, it has sometimes been posited that Kyd is the author of the Ur-Hamlet, and that the play was never published and is now lost.

In all the other great Shakespearean characters he was, according to the best critics, inferior to them, least so in Lear ( though he never played Shakespeare's tragic Lear, preferring the happy ending History of King Lear as adapted by Nahum Tate ), Hamlet and Wolsey, and most so in Shylock and Richard III.

He toured with his own Shakespearean company in the 1940s, playing Hamlet and Macbeth.

The play parodies sequences from Shakespearean tragedies including Macbeth, Hamlet, and Richard III, albeit with Texas and Boston accents.

Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits, offering parodic adaptations of situations and plot-lines from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III: like Macbeth, Ubu — on the urging of his wife — murders the king who helped him and usurps his throne, and is in turn defeated and killed by his son ; Jarry also adapts the ghost of the dead king and Fortinbras's revolt from Hamlet, Buckingham's refusal of reward for assisting a usurpation from Richard III and The Winter's Tale's bear.

He has appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles on both stage and screen, including four of the five Shakespeare films directed by Kenneth Branagh: as The Duke of Exeter in Henry V ( 1989 ), Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet ( 1996 ) and the dual role of Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in As You Like It ( 2006 ).