- Queer Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
The queer, Black Hamlet character is named Juicy The prize-winning playwright tells us about his hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy The way Ijames transforms Shakespeare’s premise makes Fat Ham into much more than a parody or an adaptation
- Hamlet - Entire Play - Folger Shakespeare Library
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark Much of its fascination, however,…
- Off the shelf | Folger Shakespeare Library
Simon Russell Beale on Shakespeare, from Hamlet to Titus Posted June 17, 2025 Called “the finest actor of his generation,” Beale has played just about everyone in Shakespeare’s canon
- Listen: Hamlet - Folger Shakespeare Library
The Ghost tells Hamlet a tale of horror Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen
- A Modern Perspective: Hamlet | Folger Shakespeare Library
Over the sensationalism and rough energy of a conventional revenge plot is placed a sophisticated psychological drama whose most intense action belongs to the interior world of soliloquy: Hamlet agrees to revenge his father’s death at the urging of the Ghost, and thus steps into an old-fashioned revenge tragedy; but it is Hamlet’s inner
- Hamlet - Act 1, scene 1 | Folger Shakespeare Library
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark Much of its fascination, however,…
- Hamlet on the (very) small stage - Folger Shakespeare Library
In 1948, you might have eagerly awaited this book of characters and scenery reproduced from Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet to stage the film at home This item was acquired by the Folger in 2006, and featured at our annual Acquisitions Night the following year
- Elizabeth Kolkovich | Folger Shakespeare Library
Discover Shakespeare’s stories and the world that shaped them Deepen your understanding of his works and their cultural influence Shakespeare's works Read and learn more about Shakespeare's plays and poems; Shakespeare in print The First Folio (the book that gave us Shakespeare) and what came after; Shakespeare in performance From playhouse to film sets, explore four centuries of staging
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