Nominations: "Outstanding Non-Resident Production," "Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production" for Michael Benz, and "Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production" for Tom Lawrence Helen Hayes Awards Wins: "Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production" for Christopher Saul. Sources may also include other contemporary works, including accounts of drinking at the Danish court and of "melancholy." An earlier Hamlet play, now lost, may have been a major source. The 1623 First Folio version is much closer to the second quarto, but differs from it by hundreds of lines. It was published as a quarto in 1603 and in a much fuller version in 1604–05. Shakespeare is thought to have written Hamlet in 1599–1601. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties.Īmong them: What is the Ghost-Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, Gertrude, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder? 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. Hamlet one of William Shakespeare's plays and perhaps his most popular, and most puzzling. For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). This article is about Shakespeare's play.
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