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Madness. Revenge. Loyalty. These major themes blend seamlessly in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

There are several different tragic elements in Hamlet, including Polonius's death, Ophelia's death and Hamlet's death, for all of which Hamlet can be held accountable.

Like James Barrie's Peter Pan, William Shakespeare's Hamlet refuses to grow up, and Hamlet's immaturity ultimately leads to tragedy.

Cameron Crowe's film Elizabethtown differs from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Yet, Elizabethtown has parallels with the Elizabethan playwright's masterpiece.

Hamlet's soliloquy about his dearly departed court jester, Yorick, explores both a transformation in his own character and Renaissance ideas concerning death and dying.

Hamlet remains one of Shakespeare's most performed plays. Its popularity has not wavered in over four hundred years. What is it about this play that's so appealing?

Hamlet's problems, and the fate of Ophelia, in Shakespeare's tragedy can be blamed on his inability to reconcile the idea of Gertrude, his mother, and her sexuality.

Hamlet is a truly heroic figure. But the challenge to any director of the play is to explain Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius without undermining Hamlet's status.

Emile Hirsch is the latest actor to play Hamlet for the big screen. Here's a short primer on the major films about the Melancholy Dane.

The RSC's '09 adaptation of its David Tennant-led show proves that TV will always welcome another Hamlet. For more proof, read about major TV versions of the past.

William Shakespeare loved wordplay, and the English language has rarely enjoyed a larger playground than that of the dramatic masterpiece Hamlet.

In Hamlet's second soliloquy, the prince berates himself for his inaction compared to the First Player. Shakespeare explores ideas of role, character and integrity.

Though William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in Elizabethan times, Hamlet seems to appear as Orlando Bloom in the little Kentucky hamlet, Elizabethtown.

While perhaps influenced by writers of revenge tragedy before him, Shakespeare produced in "Hamlet," a work that was altogether new. Bold. And defining all its own.

More than any other Shakespeare play, Hamlet is packed with doubles of all kinds. These duplicates (and triplicates) affect theme, mood, character, and everything else.

The Roxy Theatre stage must be like a second home to Tom Albrecht - asked in 2007 by Owen Sound Little Theatre director Michael Rea to play the title role in Hamlet.

Seeing Hamlet as a deliberate failure to produce a coherent revenge play can provide new insights into the play.

Hamlet's Act II, Scene 2 soliloquay shows both the character's changing attitude toward the people around him and prevailing beliefs and dilemmas of the Renaissance

Director Catherine Hardwicke takes on her newest challenge since the highly successful Twilight hit the big screen.

Shakespeare's most famous tragedy is one of the most revered pieces of literature in the history of the discipline. It is a revenge tragedy made profound.

"To be or not to be?" is arguably the most famous line in the entire Shakespearean canon and has been performed by some of the finest actors to grace the stage.

Our image of Hamlet is a durable one - but does it have any basis in the play Shakespeare wrote?

How fitting that Tom Albrecht is playing the Danish Prince with Owen Sound Little Theatre this week! Today would have been William Shakespeare's 444th birthday.

The lines in Shakespeare's Hamlet, as well as those in Shakespeare's other plays, are different depending upon the quarto, some of which scholars consider quite bad.

Walpole's gothic novel takes lessons from Shakespeare's tragedy.

William Shakespeare frequently titled his tragedies after the leading male role, but the leading female character may have a more important role in the genre of tragedy.

Sarah Bernhardt is the most famous female actor of her generation. Among her many iconic performances, she is perhaps best known for her work in Shakespearean plays.

This season at Stratford was one of the most highly anticipated in its 55-year history, and it has not disappointed with spectacular actors' and directors' debuts.

Colm Feore talks about his favourite Hamlets through the ages, and offers some insight into Hamlet's trouble with the fairer sex from Fair Ophelia to Naughty Mother.

An all-star cast at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford produces a vibrant and engaging version of one of the most famous plays in the canon: Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

TV's King of Kensington star was a powerhouse as Hedda Gabler - a daring interpretation of this Ibsen classic directed and adapted for the stage by Judith Thompson

Hamlet 2 is an ambitious, touching comedy that takes full advantage of the outstanding comic talents of its leading man, Steve Coogan.

A comparison with revenge dramas like "The Spanish Tragedy" and "Antonio's Revenge" can help elucidate the vexed question of Hamlet's madness.

Hamlet's leading man: Tom Albrecht`s decision to take the role, plus Owen Sound Little Theatre director Michael Rea and play scorist Don Buchanan.

Phrases like"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" and "To thine own self be true" are often quoted, but Shakespeare put them in the mouth of a devious and futile character

The Shakespearean tragedy focuses on romantic upheaval, misfortunes and downfall of the celebrated English playwright's major male characters.

William Poel's interest in Shakespeare's texts coincided with the publication by William Griggs of facsimile copies of the First and Second Quartos of Hamlet in 1880.

It's hard to believe that The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -- a book that is long but never long-winded -- was David Wroblewski's first book.

Ophelia, the doomed maiden of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, is the subject of this late Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece painted in 1889.

After a frenzy of speculation over the identity of Jude Law's secret fling, it was today revealed that a 24-year-old model from Florida is the woman carrying his child.

An appreciation of the Bhagavad-Gita, concerning Krishna's Dialogue of the Soul, as it appears in the Mahabharata.

The character of Ophelia has been interpreted in many ways throughout Hamlet's history in film. Each director provides a new and compelling glimpse into her madness.

When Elizabethan playwrights found the public loved gruesome tales of revenge, they embarked on a new genre. And it became a monster...

Tim Roth and Gary Oldman's comedic double act takes them on a bizarre trip through the story of Hamlet in one of the best British films ever made.

English Ministers have set out plans to teach Shakespeare in English classes to children as young as five. This raises questions about what is appropriate for children.

Shakespeare carefully hones his language to illustrate the movements of Hamlet's mind in this famous speech.

The Family Serranidae include the fancy sea basses and anthias, dwarf seabasses and hamlets, and the groupers--all of which can make great tropical marine aquarium fish.

A superb performance as poet John Keats in Jane Campion's film Bright Star has brought media attention to British actor Ben Whishaw at the Cannes Film Festival

Advanced students learn to understand that their ideas, beliefs, insights and hunches can be stated in a non-threatening way by writing a thoughtful thesis statement.

Writers often quote Shakespeare without knowing it, because so much of what the Bard wrote became cliches embedded in the everyday language.