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Shakespeare on Stage
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Comedy of Errors. To Jul. 29, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Henry IV, Part One. To Jun. 24, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Lion in Winter. To Nov. 24, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Merchant of Venice. To Nov. 23, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, A Midsummer Night's Dream. To Jun. 14, 2012.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Hamlet is the most often read, and most often studied of Shakespeare's plays. It is very much a play of ideas; thus many of the issues the play raises relate to the sections of the stack on the intellectual and political backgrounds.

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Footnotes

  1. Summary: facts about Hamlet

    Written:
    1600-01
    First published:
    1603 (a "bad" quarto)
    1604 (second quarto)
    Three quartos were published before the Folio in 1623.
    First mention:
    in the Stationer's Register, 1602
    Major source:

    probably an earlier play of the same name, now lost, perhaps by Thomas Kyd.