* Horatio – Friend to Hamlet

Horatio ( character ) | Horatio, Marcellus, Hamlet, and the Ghost ( Artist: Henry Fuseli 1798 )

The sentinels inform Horatio that they have seen a ghost that looks like the dead King Hamlet.

After hearing from Horatio of the Ghost's appearance, Hamlet resolves to see the Ghost himself.

Hamlet arrives with Horatio and banters with one of them, who unearths the skull of a jester whom Hamlet once knew, Yorick (" Alas, Poor Yorick ; I knew him, Horatio .").

Later that day, Hamlet tells Horatio how he escaped death on his journey, disclosing that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent to their deaths instead.

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.

The play does mention Wittenberg, where Hamlet, Horatio, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern attend university, and where Martin Luther first proposed his 95 theses in 1517, effectively ushering in the Protestant Reformation.

In his openness to embrace the message of the ghost, Hamlet assuages Horatio's wonderment with the analytical assertion, " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

" Other characters are renamed: Hamlet is Rude Boy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are androgynous helpers known simply as R and G, Gertrude is the madam of a brothel, Horatio becomes H and continues to be Hamlet's best friend / confidante, and a chorus of Ophelias serves as guide.

On October 5, 1858, Booth played the part of Horatio in Hamlet, with his older brother Edwin having the title role.

The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!

By the end of Hamlet, Horatio is the only main figure left alive.

* Horatio: a friend and schoolmate of Hamlet

Subsequently, Caine's agent got him cast in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore ( 1964 ) as Horatio in support of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.

These are the words that Horatio speaks at the death of Hamlet.

The name " Horatio " was inspired by the character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary figures such as Nelson.

File: Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 018. jpg | Hamlet with Horatio, ( the gravedigger scene ), 1839, the Louvre

Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard ( 1839, oil on canvas ) The critic A. C. Bradley discusses the central problem of Shakespeare's tragic character Hamlet as one where conscience in the form of moral scruples deters the young Prince with his " great anxiety to do right " from obeying his father's hell-bound ghost and murdering the usurping King (" is't not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm?

* In Act V of Hamlet, Hamlet is in the graveyard, speculating on the possible former identities of the remains being removed from the grave: " This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?

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.

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.

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.

* La tragique histoire de Hamlet ( translation of the Shakespeare play, jointly with Eugène Morand, 1900 )