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Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others. " The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance list since 1879. It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella". 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. He may also have drawn on or perhaps written an earlier (hypothetical) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet. He almost certainly created the title role for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. In the 400 years since, the role has been performed by highly acclaimed actors and actresses from each successive age. Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto (Q1, 1603), the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines, and even entire scenes, missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny. One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET OPHELIE
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- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Conversation
- Insanity
- Ophelia
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
PORTRAIT DE L'ARTISTE, DIT PORTRAIT DE DELACROIX EN HAMLE...
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- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Clothing
- Man
- Self-portrait
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET HORATIO AU CIMETIERE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cemetery
- Conversation
- Horatio (Hamlet)
- Skull
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET HORATIO AU CIMETIERE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cemetery
- Horatio (Hamlet)
- Skull
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jules-Élie Delaunay
Ophélie
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Anemone
- Crown (headgear)
- Flower
- Leucanthemum vulgare
- Ophelia
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Hamlet faisant boire le poison au Roi
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Hamlet
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crowd
- Procession
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
Deux figures et une apparition d'homme : Hamlet et le spe...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
Ophélie dans l'eau se retenant à une branche ; étude du b...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Leonetto Cappiello
Portrait-charge de Sarah Bernhardt dans Hamlet
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Caricature
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Woman
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
Enchevêtrement d'enfants et crâne de Yorick
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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