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class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <i><b>Hamlet and His Problems</b></i> is an essay written by <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> in 1919 that offers <a href="/wiki/Critical_approaches_to_Hamlet" title="Critical approaches to Hamlet">a critical reading of <i>Hamlet</i></a>. The essay first appeared in Eliot's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sacred_Wood_(T._S._Eliot)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sacred Wood (T. S. Eliot)">The Sacred Wood:</a> Essays on Poetry and Criticism</i> in 1920. It was later reprinted by <a href="/wiki/Faber_%26_Faber" title="Faber & Faber">Faber & Faber</a> in 1932 in <i><a href="/wiki/Selected_Essays,_1917-1932" class="mw-redirect" title="Selected Essays, 1917-1932">Selected Essays, 1917-1932</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Slct_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slct-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eliot's critique gained attention partly due to his claim that <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> is "most certainly an artistic failure." Eliot also popularised the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Objective_correlative" title="Objective correlative">objective correlative</a>—a mechanism used to evoke emotion in an audience—in the essay. The essay is also an example of Eliot's use of what became known as <a href="/wiki/New_criticism" class="mw-redirect" title="New criticism">new criticism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Haml_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Content">Content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_and_His_Problems&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eliot begins the essay by stating that the primary problem of <i>Hamlet</i> is actually the play itself, with its main character being only a secondary issue. Eliot goes on to note that the play enjoys critical success because the <a href="/wiki/Prince_Hamlet" title="Prince Hamlet">character of Hamlet</a> appeals to a particular kind of creatively minded critic. According to Eliot, a creative-minded individual who directs his energy toward criticism projects his own character onto Hamlet. As a result, the critic becomes biased in favor of and fixated on the character. Eliot accuses <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> of this, stating that <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Meister%27s_Apprenticeship" title="Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship">Goethe's critique</a> turns Shakespeare's tragic hero into his own <a href="/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther" title="The Sorrows of Young Werther">Werther</a> while Coleridge's "Lecture on Hamlet" made Hamlet into a Coleridge. Eliot wrote that due to their fixation on Hamlet rather than the play as a whole, the type of criticism that Coleridge and Goethe produced is "the most misleading kind possible".<sup id="cite_ref-Haml_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eliot follows this by praising <a href="/wiki/J._M._Robertson" title="J. M. Robertson">J.M. Robertson</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6168906">Elmer Edgar Stoll</a> for publishing critiques that focus on the larger scope of the play. He argues that a creative work cannot be interpreted, only criticized according to a standard or in comparison to another work. The function of interpretation in this argument is to make the reader aware of relevant historical information that they are not assumed to know. Eliot credits Robertson in particular for his historical interpretation of <i>Hamlet</i>. </p><p>Next, Eliot names three <a href="/wiki/Sources_of_Hamlet" title="Sources of Hamlet">sources</a> on which he believes Shakespeare to have based his play: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kyd" title="Thomas Kyd">Thomas Kyd</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></i>, the so-called <i><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a></i> (which he attributes to Kyd), and a version of the play performed in Germany during Shakespeare's lifetime. He notes the differences between <i>Hamlet</i> and its supposed source material, pointing out that in the earlier works the only motive for murder is revenge, the delay of which is the result of circumventing the king's guards. The Hamlet of the supposed earlier play also uses his perceived madness as a guise to escape suspicion. Eliot believes that in Shakespeare's version, however, Hamlet is driven by a motive greater than revenge, his delay in exacting revenge is left unexplained, and that Hamlet's madness is meant to arouse the king's suspicion rather than avoid it. Eliot finds these alterations too incomplete to be convincing, and feels that the prose of the two texts is so similar in some sections that it appears that Shakespeare simply revised Kyd's text. Eliot concludes this section by agreeing with Robertson's assertion that the hero of <i>Hamlet</i> is driven more by his mother's guilt than revenge for the father, and Shakespeare fell short in combining this altered motive with his source material. </p><p>The latter portion of the essay is dedicated to Eliot's criticism of <i>Hamlet</i> based on his concept of the objective correlative. He begins by arguing that the greatest contributor to the play's failure is Shakespeare's inability to express Hamlet's emotion in his surroundings and the audience's resultant inability to localize that emotion. The madness of Shakespeare's character, according to Eliot, is a result of the inexpressible things that Hamlet feels and the playwright cannot convey. Eliot concludes that because Shakespeare cannot find a sufficient objective correlative for his hero, the audience is left without a means to understand an experience that Shakespeare himself does not seem to understand.<sup id="cite_ref-Haml_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Objective_correlative">Objective correlative</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_and_His_Problems&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Objective correlative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The objective correlative concept that Eliot popularized in this essay refers to the concept that the only way to express an emotion through art is to find "a set of objects, a situation, [or] a chain of events"<sup id="cite_ref-Haml_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that will, when read or performed, evoke a specific sensory experience in the audience. This sensory experience is meant to help the reader understand the mental or emotional state of a character.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eliot writes that Hamlet's state of mind is a direct result of his confused emotions and the lack of external representation for these emotions in an objective correlative. He goes on to say that Hamlet's initial conflict is a disgust in <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_(Hamlet)" title="Gertrude (Hamlet)">his mother</a>, but his feelings regarding the situation are too complex to be represented by Gertrude alone. Neither Hamlet nor Shakespeare can grasp or objectify these feelings, and so it acts as an obstacle to the character's revenge and Shakespeare's plot. But Eliot points out that if Shakespeare had found an objective correlative for Hamlet's internal conflict, the play would be entirely changed because the bafflement that characterizes it is a direct result of Shakespeare's shortcomings in this respect. </p><p>Eliot does, however, give credit to Shakespeare's use of the objective correlative in his other works. As an example, he references a scene in <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> in which <a href="/wiki/Lady_Macbeth" title="Lady Macbeth">Lady Macbeth</a> is sleepwalking and the imagined sensory impressions Shakespeare provides allow the audience to understand her mental state.<sup id="cite_ref-Haml_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_and_His_Problems&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One critical objection to Eliot's essay is that although Eliot begins "Hamlet and His Problems" with a complaint against critics that conflate <i>Hamlet</i> and its hero, he then spends a large portion of the essay focused on Hamlet the character and his effect on the play. It has been noted that if Eliot's intent was to focus his critique on the play, he could have titled his essay "Hamlet and <i>Its</i> Problems" instead.<sup id="cite_ref-Mdy_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mdy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some critics have also pointed out that Eliot offers no formal critique or concrete suggestions of how to improve the play.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grnbg_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grnbg-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although many critics credit Eliot's concept of the objective correlative, some take issue with his discussion of the subject in this essay. 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S. Selected Essays. London: Faber and Faber, 1964.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Haml-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Haml_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Haml_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Haml_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Haml_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Haml_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eliot, T. S. "Hamlet and His Problems." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Objective Correlative." The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd., 1 Nov. 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mdy-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Mdy_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Mdy_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Moody, A. D. "Tradition and T.S. Eliot." The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 217–22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murphy, Russell Elliott. "Hamlet and His Problems." Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 246-48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Grnbg-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Grnbg_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Grnbg_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Greenburg, Bradley. "T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation." Criticism 49.2 (2008): 215–39.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_and_His_Problems&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/new.crit.html">Delahoyde, Michael. "New Criticism." New Criticism. Washington State University.</a></li> <li>Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. "T. S. Eliot, W. S. Gilbert and the 'Objective Corellative'" Yeats Eliot Review 17.4 (2001): 32.</li> <li>Stevenson, David L. "An Objective Correlative for T. S. Eliot's Hamlet." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 13.1 (1954): 69–79.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_and_His_Problems&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Eliot, Thomas Stearns. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SCfHnLwWg2MC&dq=%22Hamlet+and+His+Problems%22&pg=PA55">Hamlet and His Problems</a>." <i>The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=ea8b513c-2066-452c-a4f9-595fe1e30894%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=34142937">Greenburg, Bradley. "T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation." 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Eliot's Ariel poems">Ariel Poems</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Journey_of_the_Magi" title="Journey of the Magi">Journey of the Magi</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Song_for_Simeon" title="A Song for Simeon">A Song for Simeon</a>"</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/130px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/195px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/260px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="398" data-file-height="510" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Later poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_Possum%27s_Book_of_Practical_Cats" title="Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats">Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Awefull_Battle_of_the_Pekes_and_the_Pollicles" title="The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles">The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gus:_The_Theatre_Cat" title="Gus: The Theatre Cat">Gus: The Theatre Cat</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Growltiger%27s_Last_Stand" title="Growltiger's Last Stand">Growltiger's Last Stand</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats" title="The Naming of Cats">The Naming of Cats</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Burnt_Norton" title="Burnt Norton">Burnt Norton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/East_Coker_(poem)" title="East Coker (poem)">East Coker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dry_Salvages" title="The Dry Salvages">The Dry Salvages</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Gidding_(poem)" title="Little Gidding (poem)">Little Gidding</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Four_Quartets" title="Four Quartets">Four Quartets</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweeney_Agonistes" title="Sweeney Agonistes">Sweeney Agonistes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rock_(play)" title="The Rock (play)">The Rock</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral" title="Murder in the Cathedral">Murder in the Cathedral</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Reunion" title="The Family Reunion">The Family Reunion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cocktail_Party" title="The Cocktail Party">The Cocktail Party</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Confidential_Clerk" title="The Confidential Clerk">The Confidential Clerk</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Elder_Statesman_(play)" title="The Elder Statesman (play)">The Elder Statesman</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prose</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Selected_Essays,_1917%E2%80%931932" title="Selected Essays, 1917–1932">Selected Essays, 1917–1932</a></i></li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hamlet and His Problems</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tradition_and_the_Individual_Talent" title="Tradition and the Individual Talent">Tradition and the Individual Talent</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sacred_Wood_(T._S._Eliot)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sacred Wood (T. S. Eliot)">The Sacred Wood</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Choice_of_Kipling%27s_Verse" title="A Choice of Kipling's Verse">A Choice of Kipling's Verse</a></i> (1941)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Frontiers_of_Criticism" title="The Frontiers of Criticism">The Frontiers of Criticism</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral_(1951_film)" title="Murder in the Cathedral (1951 film)"><i>Murder in the Cathedral</i> (film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Assassinio_nella_cattedrale" title="Assassinio nella cattedrale">Assassinio nella cattedrale</a></i> (opera)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral_(1962_film)" title="Murder in the Cathedral (1962 film)"><i>Murder in the Cathedral</i> (TV play)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canticle_IV:_The_Journey_of_the_Magi" title="Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi">Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi</a></i></li> <li><i>Cats</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(musical)" title="Cats (musical)">1981 musical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(1998_film)" title="Cats (1998 film)">1998 film</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(2019_film)" title="Cats (2019 film)">2019 film</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Publishing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Criterion" title="The Criterion">The Criterion</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faber_and_Faber" class="mw-redirect" title="Faber and Faber">Faber and Faber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize" title="T. S. Eliot Prize">T. S. Eliot Prize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize_(Truman_State_University)" title="T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University)">T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_T._S._Eliot" title="Portrait of T. S. Eliot">Portrait of T. S. Eliot</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_%26_Viv_(play)" title="Tom & Viv (play)"><i>Tom & Viv</i> (1984 play,</a> <a href="/wiki/Tom_%26_Viv" title="Tom & Viv">1994 film)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_family_(America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eliot family (America)">Eliot family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vivienne_Haigh-Wood_Eliot" title="Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot">Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot <small>(first wife)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerie_Eliot" title="Valerie Eliot">Valerie Eliot <small>(second wife)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ware_Eliot" title="Henry Ware Eliot">Henry Ware Eliot <small>(father)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Champe_Stearns" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Champe Stearns">Charlotte Champe Stearns <small>(mother)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Greenleaf_Eliot" title="William Greenleaf Eliot">William Greenleaf Eliot <small>(grandfather)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Martin_Browne" title="E. Martin Browne">E. Martin Browne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Hale" title="Emily Hale">Emily Hale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Davy_Hayward" title="John Davy Hayward">John Davy Hayward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound">Ezra Pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Jules_Verdenal" title="Jean Jules Verdenal">Jean Jules Verdenal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" class="mw-redirect" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="William_Shakespeare&#039;s_Hamlet" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" 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title="Ophelia">Ophelia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Horatio_(Hamlet)" title="Horatio (Hamlet)">Horatio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern" title="Rosencrantz and Guildenstern">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fortinbras" title="Fortinbras">Fortinbras</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Gravediggers" title="The Gravediggers">The Gravediggers</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yorick" title="Yorick">Yorick</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soliloquies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be" title="To be, or not to be">To be, or not to be</a>"</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Mortal_coil" title="Mortal coil">Mortal coil</a>"</span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/What_a_piece_of_work_is_a_man" title="What a piece of work is a man">What a piece of work is a man</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Speak_the_speech" title="Speak the speech">Speak the speech</a>"</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Words and phrases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks" title="The lady doth protest too much, methinks">The lady doth protest too much, methinks</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Thy_name_is" title="Thy name is">Thy name is</a>"</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Terminology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dumbshow" title="Dumbshow">Dumbshow</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Induction_(play)" title="Induction (play)">Induction</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Quiddity" title="Quiddity">Quiddity</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Substitution_(poetry)" title="Substitution (poetry)">Substitution</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sources_of_Hamlet" title="Sources of Hamlet">Sources</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Critical_approaches_to_Hamlet" title="Critical approaches to Hamlet">Criticism</a></li></ul></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Amleth" title="Amleth">Legend of Hamlet</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Critical_approaches_to_Hamlet" title="Critical approaches to Hamlet">Critical approaches</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_bibliographies" title="Hamlet bibliographies">Bibliographies</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Saxo Grammaticus</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Gonzaga" title="House of Gonzaga">House of Gonzaga</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Damon_and_Pythias_(play)" title="Damon and Pythias (play)">Damon and Pythias</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Literary_influence_of_Hamlet" title="Literary influence of Hamlet">Influence</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Phrases_from_Hamlet_in_common_English" title="Phrases from Hamlet in common English">Common phrases from <i>Hamlet</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_references_to_Hamlet" title="Cultural references to Hamlet">Cultural references to <i>Hamlet</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_references_to_Ophelia" title="Cultural references to Ophelia">Cultural references to Ophelia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Language_of_flowers" title="Language of flowers">Language of flowers</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Human_skull_symbolism" title="Human skull symbolism">Human skull symbolism</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_in_performance" title="Hamlet in performance">Performances</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Art_Theatre_production_of_Hamlet" title="Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet">Moscow Art Theatre</a> (1911–1912)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton%27s_Hamlet" title="Richard Burton's Hamlet">Richard Burton</a> (1964)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_on_screen" title="Hamlet on screen">On screen</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1900_film)" title="Hamlet (1900 film)">1900</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1907_film)" title="Hamlet (1907 film)">1907</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1908_film)" title="Hamlet (1908 film)">1908</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1912_film)" title="Hamlet (1912 film)">1912</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1913_film)" title="Hamlet (1913 film)">1913</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1917_film)" title="Hamlet (1917 film)">1917</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet:_The_Drama_of_Vengeance" title="Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance">1921</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Khoon_Ka_Khoon" title="Khoon Ka Khoon">1935</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1948_film)" title="Hamlet (1948 film)">1948</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1954_film)" title="Hamlet (1954 film)">1954</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1961_film)" title="Hamlet (1961 film)">1961</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1964_film)" title="Hamlet (1964 film)">1964</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1969_film)" title="Hamlet (1969 film)">1969</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1974_film)" title="Hamlet (1974 film)">1974</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1990_film)" title="Hamlet (1990 film)">1990</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1996_film)" title="Hamlet (1996 film)">1996</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(2000_film)" title="Hamlet (2000 film)">2000</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(2011_film)" title="Hamlet (2011 film)">2011</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet#Stage_and_screen_adaptations" title="Hamlet">Adaptations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rest_Is_Silence_(1959_film)" title="The Rest Is Silence (1959 film)">The Rest Is Silence</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bad_Sleep_Well" title="The Bad Sleep Well">The Bad Sleep Well</a></i> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Oph%C3%A9lia_(1963_film)" title="Ophélia (1963 film)">Ophelia</a></i> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Hamlet" title="Johnny Hamlet">Johnny Hamlet</a></i> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/One_Hamlet_Less" title="One Hamlet Less">One Hamlet Less</a></i> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Angel_of_Vengeance_%E2%80%93_The_Female_Hamlet" title="The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet">The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet</a></i> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Brew" title="Strange Brew">Strange Brew</a></i> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_Goes_Business" title="Hamlet Goes Business">Hamlet Goes Business</a></i> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lion_King" title="The Lion King">The Lion King</a></i> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Let_the_Devil_Wear_Black" title="Let the Devil Wear Black">Let the Devil Wear Black</a></i> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Banquet_(2006_film)" title="The Banquet (2006 film)">The Banquet</a></i> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Doubt_(2009_film)" title="Doubt (2009 film)">Doubt</a></i> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Karmayogi_(2012_film)" title="Karmayogi (2012 film)">Karmayogi</a></i> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Haider_(film)" title="Haider (film)">Haider</a></i> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_A.D.D." title="Hamlet A.D.D.">Hamlet A.D.D.</a></i> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hemanta_(film)" title="Hemanta (film)">Hemanta</a></i> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ophelia_(2018_film)" title="Ophelia (2018 film)">Ophelia</a></i> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lion_King_(2019_film)" title="The Lion King (2019 film)">The Lion King</a></i> (2019)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_Had_an_Uncle" title="Hamlet Had an Uncle">Hamlet Had an Uncle</a></i> (1940)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Too,_Too_Solid_Flesh" title="Too, Too Solid Flesh">Too, Too Solid Flesh</a></i> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_and_Claudius" title="Gertrude and Claudius">Gertrude and Claudius</a></i> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dating_Hamlet" title="Dating Hamlet">Dating Hamlet</a></i> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dead_Fathers_Club" title="The Dead Fathers Club">The Dead Fathers Club</a></i> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Something_Rotten_(Gratz)" class="mw-redirect" title="Something Rotten (Gratz)">Something Rotten</a></i> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Father" title="Hamlet's Father">Hamlet's Father</a></i> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Edgar_Sawtelle" title="The Story of Edgar Sawtelle">The Story of Edgar Sawtelle</a></i> (2008)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamletmachine" title="Hamletmachine">Hamletmachine</a></i> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dogg%27s_Hamlet,_Cahoot%27s_Macbeth" title="Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth">Dogg's Hamlet</a></i> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Fortinbras_(play)" title="Fortinbras (play)">Fortinbras</a></i> (1991)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Musicals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rockabye_Hamlet" title="Rockabye Hamlet">Rockabye Hamlet</a></i> (1973)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1959_film)" title="Hamlet (1959 film)">Hamlet</a></i> (Australian TV, 1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_at_Elsinore" title="Hamlet at Elsinore">Hamlet at Elsinore</a></i> (BBC, 1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare#Hamlet,_Prince_of_Denmark" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</a></i> (BBC, 1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare:_The_Animated_Tales#Hamlet" title="Shakespeare: The Animated Tales">Hamlet</a></i> (BBC 2, animated, 1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(2009_film)" title="Hamlet (2009 film)">Hamlet</a></i> (BBC 2, 2009)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/15-Minute_Hamlet" title="15-Minute Hamlet">15-Minute Hamlet</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_William_Shakespeare_(Abridged)" title="The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)">The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_(play)" title="Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play)">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I,_Hamlet" title="I, Hamlet">I, Hamlet</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Klingon_Hamlet" title="The Klingon Hamlet">The Klingon Hamlet</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/List_of_VeggieTales_videos#Lyle_the_Kindly_Viking_(2001)" title="List of VeggieTales videos">Lyle the Kindly Viking</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_(book)" title="To Be or Not to Be (book)">To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Public_Domain" title="Tales from the Public Domain">Tales from the Public Domain</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Skinhead_Hamlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Skinhead Hamlet">The Skinhead Hamlet</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/My_Robin_is_to_the_greenwood_gone" title="My Robin is to the greenwood gone">My Robin is to the greenwood gone</a>" (16th century)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Pull_Me_Under" title="Pull Me Under">Pull Me Under</a>" (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Song_for_Athene" title="Song for Athene">Song for Athene</a>" (1997)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opera/classical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(Thomas)" title="Hamlet (Thomas)"><i>Hamlet</i></a> (Thomas)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Amleto" title="Amleto">Amleto</a></i> (Faccio)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)">Hamlet</a> (Tchaikovsky)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Tristia_(Berlioz)" title="Tristia (Berlioz)">Tristia</a></i> (Berlioz)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Die_Hamletmaschine_(opera)" title="Die Hamletmaschine (opera)">Die Hamletmaschine</a></i> (Rihm)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(Dean)" title="Hamlet (Dean)">Hamlet</a></i> (Dean)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_references_to_Hamlet" title="Cultural references to Hamlet">In popular culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_(1942_film)" title="To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)">To Be or Not to Be</a></i> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Performance_of_Hamlet_in_the_Village_of_Mrdu%C5%A1a_Donja" title="A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja">A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja</a></i> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_(1983_film)" title="To Be or Not to Be (1983 film)">To Be or Not to Be</a></i> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rosencrantz_%26_Guildenstern_Are_Dead_(film)" title="Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)">Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead</a></i> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening" title="Highlander II: The Quickening">Highlander II: The Quickening</a></i> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Action_Hero" title="Last Action Hero">Last Action Hero</a></i> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Man_(film)" title="Renaissance Man (film)">Renaissance Man</a></i> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Bleak_Midwinter_(film)" title="In the Bleak Midwinter (film)">In the Bleak Midwinter</a></i> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/War_(2002_film)" title="War (2002 film)">War</a></i> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_2" title="Hamlet 2">Hamlet 2</a></i> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Undead" title="Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead</a></i> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Days_(of_Hamlet)" title="Three Days (of Hamlet)">Three Days</a></i> (2012)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead" title="Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</a></i> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Stage_Blood" title="Stage Blood">Stage Blood</a></i> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_Hate_Hamlet" title="I Hate Hamlet">I Hate Hamlet</a></i> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_(play)" title="To Be or Not to Be (play)">To Be or Not to Be</a></i> (2008)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet,_Revenge!" title="Hamlet, Revenge!">Hamlet, Revenge!</a></i> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Theatre of War</i> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_Undiscovered" title="The Undiscovered">The Undiscovered</a>" (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shakespeare_Stealer" title="The Shakespeare Stealer">The Shakespeare Stealer</a></i> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Interred_with_Their_Bones" title="Interred with Their Bones">Interred with Their Bones</a></i> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i> (2020)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_Producer" title="The Producer">The Producer</a>" (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_Conscience_of_the_King" title="The Conscience of the King">The Conscience of the King</a>" (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Born_to_Be_King_(Blackadder)" title="Born to Be King (Blackadder)">Born to Be King</a>" (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Terrance_and_Phillip:_Behind_the_Blow" title="Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow">Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow</a>" (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Slings_%26_Arrows" title="Slings & Arrows">Slings & Arrows</a></i> (2003)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Action_Hero_(video_game)" title="Last Action Hero (video game)">Last Action Hero</a></i> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(video_game)" title="Hamlet (video game)">Hamlet</a></i> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Elsinore_(video_game)" title="Elsinore (video game)">Elsinore</a></i> (2019)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Great_Crossing" title="Asterix and the Great Crossing">Asterix and the Great Crossing</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Seagull" title="The Seagull">The Seagull</a></i></span></li> <li><span 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