Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet, painting by Edouard Manet, public domain image

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Summary from Librivox: Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then appears and charges Claudius with ‘murder most foul.’ Hamlet is called to revenge his father’s death: but will he be able to act before it is too late?

Hamlet by Alfons Mucha, public domain image from Wikimedia Commons

Dramatis Personae – 00:02:42

Act 1 – 00:51:10

Act 2 – 00:41:11

Hamlet and the Gravediggers by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, 1883, public domain image

Act 3 – 00:55:03

Act 4 – 00:39:44

Act 5 – 00:43:30

One Reply to “Hamlet by William Shakespeare”

  1. Excellent readers, excellent find! Our fine-arts co-op is doing Hamlet in their Shakespeare class this year, so I’m thrilled to have found this!

    Thank you for providing all of this great literature in one easy location. We have been blessed time and time again, for a few years now.

    Many blessings,
    Teresa

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