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

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

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

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.

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

The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of deceased King Hamlet and his wife, Queen Gertrude.

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.

Both Polonius and Laertes warn Ophelia that Hamlet is surely not serious about her.

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.

When the murder scene is presented, Claudius abruptly rises and leaves the room, which Hamlet sees as proof of his uncle's guilt.

Polonius, spying on the scene from behind an arras and convinced that the prince's madness is indeed real, panics when it seems as if Hamlet is about to murder the Queen and cries out for help.

Hamlet, believing it is Claudius hiding behind the arras, stabs wildly through the cloth, killing Polonius.

Alone, Claudius discloses that he is actually sending Hamlet to his death.

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

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

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

A 17th-century Nordic scholar, Torfaeus, compared the Icelandic hero Amlodi and the Spanish hero Prince Ambales ( from the Ambales Saga ) to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven.

The earliest date estimate relies on Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s frequent allusions to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, itself dated to mid-1599.

Early editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 ) and Lewis Theobald ( 1733 ), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available at the time, Q2 and F1.

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.

One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot.

Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

What is known is that the crew of the ship Red Dragon, anchored off Sierra Leone, performed Hamlet in September 1607 ; that the play toured in Germany within five years of Shakespeare's death ; and that it was performed before James I in 1619 and Charles I in 1637.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

The work intertwines the plots and characters of Calderon de la Barca's " Life is a Dream " with Shakespeare's " Hamlet.

Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art.

The Manuscript of Shakespeare's " Hamlet " and the Problems of its Transmission: An Essay in Critical Bibliography.

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

In an opinion shared in some form or another by Harold Bloom, and Peter Alexander, early scholar Andrew Cairncross, stated that " It may be assumed, until a new case can be shown to the contrary, that Shakespeare's Hamlet and no other is the play mentioned by Nashe in 1589 and Henslowe in 1594.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says, " There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.

The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

The action of Stoppard's play takes place mainly " in the wings " of Shakespeare's, with brief appearances of major characters from Hamlet who enact fragments of the original's scenes.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

He then put his stage career on the back burner to concentrate on film, although he received a third Tony Award nomination when he reprised his Hamlet under John Gielgud's direction in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

After Hamlet, it is the longest play in the canon and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet is shorter than its Quarto counterpart.

At three hours and eleven minutes, it was the longest film version of Hamlet to that date.