Hamlet: Media
work by Shakespeare
Videos
Hamlet speaks his world-weary soliloquy “O, that this too too sullied flesh would...
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This video provides a brief synopsis of the plot of Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet,...
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A discussion of William Shakespeare's use of soliloquy in Hamlet.
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Hamlet confronts his mother and mistakenly kills Polonius in Act III, scene 4, of...
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The madness of Ophelia, as analyzed by the cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare...
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Short excerpts from a Folger Shakespeare Library production of William Shakespeare's...
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Hamlet vents his rage on Ophelia in the speech “Get thee to a nunnery” from Act III,...
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Gertrude is forced by Hamlet to face her own treachery in Act III, scene 4, of Shakespeare's...
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Seeing Claudius alone and unarmed, Hamlet considers killing him in Act III, scene...
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“Now I am alone. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I,” begins Hamlet's soliloquy...
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An informal overview of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy, particularly William Shakespeare's...
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A teacher explains why Hamlet is her favourite Shakespeare play to teach.
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Images
Kenneth Branagh (left) as Hamlet, with Julie Christie as his mother, Gertrude, in...
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Edwin Booth, a renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, in the title...
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Holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet (played by Laurence Olivier) contemplates death in...
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Joseph Papp in front of a poster for his production of Hamlet, 1977
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Gertrude in Hamlet, as portrayed by Glenn Close, 1990
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A scene from the 1990 film Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, featuring...
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Mel Gibson in the title role of Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 version of Shakespeare's...
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Oliver Ford Davies (left) as Polonius and David Tennant as Hamlet in William Shakespeare's...
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Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Hamlet, lithograph poster by Alphonse...
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Ophelia, oil on canvas, by John Everett Millais, 1852; in Tate Britain,...
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Playbill headlining Edwin Booth in the title role of an 1863 performance of Hamlet
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Audio
Hamlet: Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Hamlet berates himself: “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” (Hamlet,...
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