"Conquer"", Gnatbrain in Douglas William Jerrold's ""Black-Eyed Susan"", Silky in Thomas Holcroft's ""The Road to Ruin"", Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mawworm in Isaac Bickerstaff's ""The Hypocrite"", Marrall in Philip Massinger's ""A New Way to Pay Old Debts"", and Dr Ollapod in George Colman's ""The Poor Gentleman"". By the early 1840s, Compton had earned the reputation of being the best Shakespearian clown of his age. He continued in seasons at Dublin, Ireland, at Drury Lane (playing Polonius, Sir Peter Teazle in ""The School for Scandal"", Launcelot Gobbo in ""The Merchant of Venice"", and Foresight in William Congreve's ""Love for Love""), at Manchester"
"and went to America on five of the Lyceum tours. While many of his roles with the company were small, John Martin-Harvey described him as the acknowledged Shakespearean clown of his day, and his Lancelot Gobbo in ""The Merchant of Venice"", Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1882 and 1893) and Gravedigger in ""Hamlet"" reflect this. For Irving, Johnson played Mr. Wardle in ""Jingle"", Sancho Panza in ""Don Quixote"", Samson Rawbold in ""The Iron Chest"", Farmer Flamborough in ""Olivia"" (opposite Hermann Vezin as Dr. Primrose), Jock Howieson in ""The King and the Miller"" (1890 and 1895), Choppard in ""The Lyons"
"written for the particular talents of famous Elizabethan actor, William Kempe. After Kempe left the troupe, Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically. Kempe was known for his improvising, and ""Hamlet"" contains a famous complaint at improvisational clowning (Act 3, Scene 2). Perhaps central to the Bard's redrawing of the fool was the actor Robert Armin: ... Shakespeare created a whole series of domestic fools for [Ar- min]. [His] greatest roles, Touchstone in ""As You Like It,""(1599), Feste in ""Twelfth Night,""(1600), and (the) fool in ""King Lear,""(1605); helped Shakespeare resolve the tension between thematic material and the traditional entertainment role of the"
"2005), provides two different versions of the play, each with respectable authority. The problem exists with at least four other Shakespearian plays (""Henry IV, part 1"", ""Hamlet"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""Othello""). During Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his greatest plays were staged at the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare's fellow members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men acted in his plays. Among these actors were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley (who played Verges in ""Much Ado About Nothing""),"
"thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other characters. He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton"
"Shakespeare may even have seen them himself. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker wrote in one of his plays published in ""The Gull's Horn-book"" (1609): It has been suggested that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company that Shakespeare worked for as an actor and playwright for most of his career, named their playing space the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, as a response to the growing enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes stimulated by those of Molyneux. In ""Twelfth Night"" (1600–1601), Shakespeare alluded to the Wright–Molyneux Map when Maria says of Malvolio: ""He does smile his face into more lynes, than"
"Hamlet in performance Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been performed many times since the beginning of the 17th century. Shakespeare wrote the role of Hamlet for Richard Burbage, tragedian of The Lord Chamberlain's Men: an actor with a capacious memory for lines, and a wide emotional range. Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime, eclipsed only by ""Henry VI Part 1"", ""Richard III"" and ""Pericles"". Although the story was set many centuries before, at The Globe the play was performed in Elizabethan dress. ""Hamlet"" was acted by the crew of the ship ""Red Dragon"","
"Roman plays ""Coriolanus"", ""Julius Caesar"", and ""Antony and Cleopatra"". Another tragedy ""King Lear"", is based on British legend, as is the romanc ""Cymbeline, King of Britain"", which is set in Ancient Britain. Other playwrights contemporary to Shakespeare, such as Christopher Marlowe, also dramatized historical topics. Marlowe wrote ""Edward the Second"" which deals with the deposition of King Edward II by his barons and the Queen, who resent the undue influence the king's favourites have in court and state affairs, and ""The Massacre at Paris"", which dramatizes the events of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France in 1572. Marlowe's ""Tamburlaine"
"Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; Claudius in ""Hamlet"" (1993) and Torvald Helmer in ""A Doll's House"" (1994) for the English Touring Theatre; The Inspector in ""An Inspector Calls"" (1996–1997) at the Garrick Theatre, Count Orsini Rosenberg in ""Amadeus"" (1999) at The Old Vic, Friar Laurence in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (2002) for Theatr Clywd, Mr. Kipps in ""The Woman in Black"" (2003) at the Fortune Theatre, Wackford Squeers/Sir Mulbery Hawk in ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2006), for the Chichester Festival Theatre and which transferred in December 2007 and January 2008 to the Gielgud Theatre; Barnardo/Player King/Gravedigger in ""Hamlet"" (2011–2012) at the Young Vic,"
"the same source used by Shakespeare. Shakespeare used Britain's mythical history in several of his plays, including ""King Lear"" and ""Cymbeline"", based on the stories of Leir of Britain and Cunobelinus, respectively. The play is essentially a pastiche of Shakespeare, with Vortigern serving as a Macbeth figure; other Shakespearean elements include the use of Holinshead and Flavia's cross-dressing. The play experienced a comedic revival by the Pembroke Players at the Pembroke College New Cellars, Cambridge, on November 19, 2008. The production was directed by Pembroke third-year Alexander Whiscombe, and starred David Harrap in the title role with Eystein Thanisch as"
"""Hamlet/Maschine"" (""Hamlet/Machine""). Tom Stoppard directed a 1990 film version of his own play ""Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"". The highest-grossing ""Hamlet"" adaptation to-date is Disney's Academy Award-winning animated feature ""The Lion King"": although, as befits the genre, the play's tragic ending is avoided. In addition to these adaptations, there are innumerable references to Hamlet in other works of art. Hamlet in performance Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been performed many times since the beginning of the 17th century. Shakespeare wrote the role of Hamlet for Richard Burbage, tragedian of The Lord Chamberlain's Men: an actor with a capacious memory for"
"poisoned, and drowned key characters. By the end of ""Hamlet"", Horatio is the only main figure left alive. A previous, satirical play of a similar nature named ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"" was written by W. S. Gilbert in 1874 and performed in 1891. The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" who are childhood friends of the prince, focusing on their actions with the events of ""Hamlet"" as background. ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"" is structured as the inverse of ""Hamlet""; the title characters are the leads, not supporting players, and"
"Her Majesty's Theatre in London. They included Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (as Falstaff), ""The Merchant of Venice"" (as Old Gobbo) and ""Julius Caesar"" (as Ligarius); also ""The School for Scandal"" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and a dramatisation by J. Comyns Carr of Charles Dickens's novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" (as Durdles). This theatre was built in 1897 with the involvement of Herbert Beerbohm Tree,who directed and appeared in these plays. Between 1910 and 1917 he appeared in various Broadway theatres. He appeared in ""Suzanne"" which ran for 64 performances at the Lyceum Theatre, opening in December"
"a character in the 2015 play ""[exit Mrs Behn] or, The Leo Play"" by Christopher vanDer Ark. Underhill married Elizabeth Robinson, widow of Thomas Robinson, a vintner in Cheapside; she died in October 1673. Cave Underhill Cave Underhill (1634–1710?) was an English actor in comedy roles. Underhill entertained three generations of London theatre-goers. For over 40 years, as a member of the Duke's Company, Underhill played the first Gravedigger in ""Hamlet"". He was also successful in playing Gregory in ""Romeo and Juliet"", the clown in ""Twelfth Night"", and Trinculo in ""The Tempest"". The son of Nicholas Underhill, a clothworker, he"
"career and eventually became an associate artist. He mostly appeared in Shakespeare plays, including the title role in ""Cymbeline"", Edmund of Langley in ""Richard II"", the King in ""All's Well That Ends Well"", Ulysses in ""Troilus and Cressida"", and Leonato in ""Much Ado About Nothing"". ""The Times"" described his performance in the title role of ""Cymbeline"" as ""awe-inspiring"", and ""The Independent"" described his performance as Polonius in ""Hamlet"" as ""unrivalled in his complacency and sense of circumstance"". The ""Telegraph"" described his performance of Gloucester in ""King Lear"" as ""doleful"" and his performance of Duncan in ""Macbeth"" as ""decent"". Many of"
"Hamlet in popular culture Numerous references to ""Hamlet"" in popular culture (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. ""Hamlet"" is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare since 1879. The following list of plays including references to ""Hamlet"" is ordered alphabetically. The following list is ordered alphabetically. Sitcoms alluding to ""Hamlet"" include ""Gilligan's Island"", ""Happy Days"", ""Skins"", ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"" and ""Upstart Crow"". Cartoons include ""The Simpsons"", ""South Park"", ""Animaniacs"" and ""The Brak Show"". At least 26 operas have been written based on ""Hamlet"", including: Instrumental"
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of ""Hamlet"" by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert's play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son Prince Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Ophelia. Gilbert's play first appeared in ""Fun"" magazine in 1874 after having been rejected for production by several theatre companies. The first performance of the work was not until June 1891, a benefit matinée at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The play finally ran at the Court"
"drawn on an earlier Elizabethan play known today as the ""Ur-Hamlet"", though some scholars believe he himself wrote the ""Ur-Hamlet"", later revising it to create the version of ""Hamlet"" we now have. He almost certainly wrote his version of the title role for his fellow actor, Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. In the 400 years since its inception, the role has been performed by numerous highly acclaimed actors in each successive century. Three different early versions of the play are extant: the First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623)."
"Matheson Lang Matheson Alexander Lang (May 15, 1879 – April 11, 1948) was a Canadian-born stage and film actor and playwright in the early 20th century. He is best remembered for his performances roles in Great Britain in Shakespeare plays. Lang was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Rev. Gavin Lang of Inverness, Scotland. He was educated at Inverness College and the University of St Andrews. He made his stage debut in 1897. He became known for his Shakespearean roles in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. He also appeared in plays by Henrik Ibsen"
"updated the setting to the 1930s but changed none of Shakespeare's dialogue. Shakespeare in performance Thousands (perhaps even millions) of performances of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century. While Shakespeare was alive, many of his greatest plays were performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men acting companies at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres. Among the actors of these original performances were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley, and William Kempe. Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged"
"and the history ""The Revolution in Sweden"" (1706). David Crawford's (1665–1726) plays included the Restoration comedies ""Courtship A-la-Mode"" (1700) and ""Love at First Sight"" (1704). These developed the character of the stage Scot, often a clown, but cunning and loyal. Newburgh Hamilton (1691–1761), born in Ireland of Scottish descent, produced the comedies ""The Petticoat-Ploter"" (1712) and ""The Doating Lovers"" or ""The Libertine"" (1715). He later wrote the libretto for Handel's ""Samson"" (1743), closely based on John Milton's ""Samson Agonistes"". James Thompson's plays often dealt with the contest between public duty and private feelings, included ""Sophonisba"" (1730), ""Agamemnon"" (1738) and ""Tancrid"
"death. Ophelia suggests that instead of killing the prince, the King should banish him to ""Engle-land"", where ""dwell a cultured race."" Claudius assents, commenting, ""They're welcome to his philosophic brain."" Hamlet is banished, and Rosencrantz embraces Ophelia. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of ""Hamlet"" by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert's play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son Prince Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Ophelia. Gilbert's play first appeared in ""Fun"" magazine in 1874"
"the same theatre which put on a production of ""Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth"" in 2000. Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth are two plays by Tom Stoppard, written to be performed together. This was not the first time that Stoppard had made use of Shakespearian texts in his own plays or even the first time he had used ""Hamlet"" although the context is far different from that of his earlier ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"". Stoppard would return to the theme of artistic dissent against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in ""Rock 'n' Roll"". It was performed on"
"event pinpoints the date of a Shakespeare play with rare precision. Sir Henry Wotton recorded that the play ""was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony"". The theatre was rebuilt but, like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. The actors in Shakespeare's company included Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"""
"the Globe Theatre, the first London playhouse built by actors for actors, on the south bank of the Thames at Southwark. The Globe opened in autumn 1599, with ""Julius Caesar"" one of the first plays staged. Most of Shakespeare's greatest post-1599 plays were written for the Globe, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"" and ""King Lear"". The Globe, like London's other open-roofed public theatres, employed a thrust-stage, covered by a cloth canopy. A two-storey facade at the rear of the stage hid the tiring house and, through windows near the top of the facade, opportunities for balcony scenes such as the one in"
"Hamlet, Revenge! Hamlet, Revenge! is a 1937 novel by Michael Innes (a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart), his second novel. It centers on the investigation into the murder of the Lord Chancellor of England during an amateur production of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", in which he plays Polonius, and other crimes which follow at the seat of the Duke of Horton, Scamnum Court. Inspector John Appleby is called by the Government to investigate the fatal shooting of Lord Auldearn, theologian and Lord Chancellor of England during a private production of Hamlet at Scamnum Court, where he encounters novel technologies, eccentric personalities, espionage, intrigue, assassination and"
"Richard Burton's Hamlet Richard Burton’s ""Hamlet"" is a common name for both the Broadway production of William Shakespeare's tragedy that played from April 9 to August 8, 1964 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and for the filmed record of it that has been released theatrically and on home video. The production took place because of a lighthearted agreement between Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole while they were filming ""Becket"". O’Toole decreed that they should each play Hamlet afterwards under the direction of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in either London or New York City, with a coin toss deciding who would"
"clown to Saturninus) and 4.4 (the execution of the clown). Much of the violence was toned down; for example both the murder of Chiron and Demetrius and Titus' amputation take place off stage. A significant change in the first scene, and one with major implications for the rest of the play, is that prior to the sacrifice of Alarbus, it is revealed that several years previously, Tamora had one of Titus' sons in captivity and refused to show him clemency despite Titus' pleas. Aaron has a much larger role in Ravenscroft than in Shakespeare, especially in Act 1, where lines"
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"". They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. The characters were revived in W. S. Gilbert's satire, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"", and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play, ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"", which was adapted into a film. ""Rosencrantz"" (""rosary"") and ""Gyldenstjerne/Gyllenstierna"" (""golden star"") were names of Danish (and Norwegian, and Swedish) noble families of the 16th century; records of the Danish royal coronation of"
"In December 1660, the King granted the Duke's Company the exclusive rights to ten of Shakespeare's plays: ""Hamlet"", ""Macbeth"", ""King Lear"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""The Tempest"", ""Twelfth Night"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""Henry VIII"", and ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"". In 1661, their first year at Lincoln's Inn Fields, the company revived ""Hamlet"", in a production that employed the innovation of stage scenery. Samuel Pepys saw their production on 24 August; he described it as ""done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton did the Prince's part beyond imagination"". Davenant tried to make the most of the"
"combined with the Jacobean vogue for lavishly staged masques, created new conditions for performance which enabled Shakespeare to introduce more elaborate stage devices. In ""Cymbeline"", for example, Jupiter descends ""in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" Plays produced at the indoor theater presumably also made greater use of sound effects and music. A fragment of the naval captain William Keeling's diary survives, in which he details his crew's shipboard performances of ""Hamlet"" (off the coast of Sierra Leone, 5 September 1607, and at Socotra, 31 March 1608), and ""Richard"
"Starring Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, Robert Shaw as Claudius and June Tobin as Gertrude, the entire play was shot on-location in Helsingør at the real Elsinore Castle. In 1970, they screened ""The Tragedy of Richard II"", sourced from Richard Cottrell's touring production, and starring Ian McKellen as Richard and Timothy West as Bolingbroke. Additionally, the ""Play of the Month"" series had screened several Shakespearean adaptations over the years; ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1967), ""The Tempest"" (1968), ""Julius Caesar"" (1969), ""Macbeth"" (1970), ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1971), ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1972), ""Love's Labour's Lost"" (1974) and ""King Lear"" (1975). The ""BBC"
"makes several references to various plays by Shakespeare, both real and fictional. Some existing plays, such as ""Hamlet"" and ""As You Like It"", are given new names (""The Prince of Denmark"" and ""If You Like It""), and presumably different content. Another play mentioned, ""Love's Labour's Won"", is the title of an actual lost play by Shakespeare, presumed to be a sequel to the existing ""Love's Labour's Lost"". Christopher Marlowe, who historically died in 1593, lives until October or November 1598 in the novel. As well as his known plays, the novel creates two imaginary Marlowe plays, ""Catiline"" and"" Cambyses, King"