Hamlet Home Page

This is the Home Page for Hamlet. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Hamlet (Folio 1, 1623)
    
  • Hamlet (Quarto 1, 1603)
    
  • Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Hamlet

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Hamlet, Quarto 1 (1603)
  Halliwell-Phillipps copy from British Library, London
• Hamlet, Quarto 2 (1604)
  Garrick copy from British Library, London

Pages from the "Life and Times" that discuss Hamlet

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  
• The opening scenes: the Ghost
  
• The opening scenes: the Court
  
• The opening scenes: staging
  
• Revenge
  
• "Incestuous sheets"
  
• Hamlet and the women in his life
  
• Hamlet: university student
  
• Hamlet as actor
  
• Madness: Hamlet
  
• Madness: Ophelia
  
• Hamlet and Laertes: the duel
  
• Claudius: divine right?
  
• Claudius: politician
  
• Ordinary people
  
• The ending: Fortinbras
  
• The ending: order restored?
  
• What kind of tragedy is Hamlet?
  
• The sources of Hamlet
  
• The text: solid or sullied?
  

List of performances related to Hamlet

• Hamlet (1968, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Hamlet, prince du Québec (1968, Les Productions Deschamps-Lelarge Inc., Canada)
• Baylor Theatre's Hamlet (1958, Gene McKinney, USA)
• Hamlet (1978, Zilla Clinton, USA)
• Hamlet (1947, GB)
• Khoon ka khoon (1935, Sohrab Modi, India)
• Hamlet (1953, Albert McCleery, USA)
• "To Be or Not to Be": Some Views of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1955, Seymour Robbie, USA)
• Hamlet (1959, Ralph Nelson, GB)
• Hamlet: Prinz von Danemark (1960, Franz Peter Wirth, West Germany)
• Hamlet at Elsinore (1964, Philip Saville, GB)
• Hamlet (1964, USA)
• Hamlet (1970, Peter Wood, GB)
• Hamlet Revisited: Approaches to Hamlet (1970, USA)
• Hamlet (1972, David Giles, GB)
• Approaches to Hamlet (1975, USA)
• Hamlet (1977, Japan)
• Amleto (1978, Carmelo Bene, Italy)
• Cleavon Little as Hamlet on Joseph Papp and the Public (1979, USA)
• Hamlet (1980, International)
• 177 more performances...

Summary list of artifacts related to the play Hamlet

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Ophelia - A Letter by a Victorian Actress (Hamlet)
  Faucit, Helena. "Ophelia" Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. 6th ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899: 3-21. Excerpt transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. A discussion of the character of Ophelia by one the the actresses famous for playing her in the Victorian period:
• The Mixture of "High" and "Low" Culture in Hamlet I,i: a Close Reading
  Hill, Harry. "The Mixture of 'High' and 'Low' Culture in Hamlet I,i: A Close Reading." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Hill argues that popular culture is not folk culture but low culture elevated to high ; he examines Hamlet 1.1 to provide examples of Shakespeare's ability to elevate low culture by reproducing the way people speak and think in metaphor and verbal texture.
• Queen of the First Quarto
  Shand, G.B. "Queen of the First Quarto." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. A performance-oriented study of Queen Gertrude in Hamlet's First Quarto.
• Hearing Green: Logomarginality in Hamlet - Introduction
  Smith, Bruce R. "Hearing Green: Logomarginality in Hamlet" Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 1.1-2. Beginning with an audioclip of segments from the first two scenes of Hamlet, Smith considers Prince Hamlet's coming-to-presence in the play's original performances through three frames: the physical, the dramaturgical, and the physiological:
• Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther.
  Sohmer, Steve. "Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (1996): 1.1-2. Sohmer briefly examines the connections other critics have made between Hamlet and the Reformation as well as the role played by the dates mentioned within the text, the dates Shakespeare's acting company carefully chose for the initial performances of plays, and the dating of the text:
• Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet
  Russell Brown. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet." Connotations 2.1 (1992): 16-33. Russell Brown analyses what the last scenes of the play, particularly the death scenes, add to the characterization of Hamlet and our understanding of his interaction with the world:
• Hamlet Haven
  This website, created by Harmonie Blankenship, hopes to assist in the navigation of Hamlet scholarship by grouping scholarly publications that use similar approaches and that treat similar subjects. You can narrow your search by selecting characters, subjects, or approaches:
• Hamlet Haven
  This website, created by Harmonie Blankenship, hopes to assist in the navigation of Hamlet scholarship by grouping scholarly publications that use similar approaches and that treat similar subjects. You can narrow your search by selecting characters, subjects, or approaches:
• The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke (1603 Quarto)
  The University of Virginia's transcription of the First Quarto for Hamlet is available at their Electronic Text Center:
• The German Hamlet
  Anonymous. De Brudermord (Fratricide Punished): Tragoedia Der bestrafte Brudermord oder Prinz Hamlet aus Dannemark. This German play, ambiguously related to Hamlet, is available in translation from Clifford Stetner of Columbia University: