Hamlet Navigator
Also:
David Tennant as Hamlet
2009 film
Mel Gibson as Hamlet
1990 film
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet
1948 film
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
--1899--
- Act 1, Scene 1:
- If you just want to start reading, here's the place to start. Explanatory notes and illustrations are in the margins.
- Scene Index:
- Links to the scenes of the play, with short summaries of each scene.
- Search Engine:
- Search all of the Hamlet Navigator site.
- Notable Quotes in Hamlet:
- Each quote is briefly explained and linked to the text, so you can see the quote in context.
- Detailed Scene Summaries:
- In these summaries I have tried to tell the story of the play, and provide links to key passages in the text.
- The Cast of Characters:
- Annotated links to all appearances of a character and all mentions of that character by other characters.
- Hamlet's Character:
- Annotated links to passages that illustrate aspects of Hamlet's complex character.
- Themes:
- Annotated links to passages particularly relevant to significant themes.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Hamlet:
- A Q&A guide to A.C. Bradley's justly famous Shakespearean Tragedy.
- "Hamlet and His Problems":
- T.S. Eliot's very famous (and very snotty) essay, in which Eliot defines "objective correlative" and declares that Hamlet "is most certainly an artistic failure."
- "The Oedipus-Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery":
- Ernest Jones' extremely influential essay.
- Pages from Coleridge's Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets,
- in which the great Romantic poet describes Hamlet as one who thinks too much.