Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:adaptedInto gptkb:ballet
gptkb:film
gptkb:novel
gptkb:opera
gptkbp:author gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dateWritten circa 1600
gptkbp:firstPerformed circa 1600
gptkbp:firstPublished 1603
gptkbp:genre tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hamlet by William Shakespeare
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:literature
gptkb:theatre
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Ophelia
gptkb:Laertes
gptkb:Polonius
gptkb:Gertrude
gptkb:Guildenstern
gptkb:Horatio
gptkb:Prince_Hamlet
gptkb:Rosencrantz
Claudius
gptkbp:notableAdaptation Benedict Cumberbatch stage production (2015)
David Tennant RSC production (2008)
Ethan Hawke film (2000)
Kenneth Branagh film (1996)
Laurence Olivier film (1948)
Mel Gibson film (1990)
Richard Burton Broadway production (1964)
gptkbp:notableQuote To be, or not to be: that is the question.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Frailty, thy name is woman.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
The rest is silence.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
To die, to sleep—To sleep—perchance to dream.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
gptkbp:numberOfActs 5
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Denmark
gptkbp:source Amleth (legend)
gptkbp:subject betrayal
corruption
death
madness
revenge
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Kronborg_Castle
gptkb:Haider
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5