Hamlet
By Cristina Assisi, Valeria Bendetto, Federico Capobianchi, Iris Pacifici
Let's begin!
are you ready?
Steps
The Themes
Source
Performance
The Plot
Setting
Movies
Characters
Quotes
Hamlet? What is?
Hamlet is the first modern play in history of literature, this play was probably written between 1600 and the summer of 1602.It has the structure of a typical revenge play, but in this play revenge is paired with dubs,questions and uncertainties. The play is also a very deep reflection on the nature of theatre, and a reflection on the universal meaning of life
+The role of women
Sources
The immediate source of Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a play that was performed in Elizabethan theatres in the 1580s and 1590s, telling the story of a Danish prince called Hamlet who wanted to avenge his father’s death.
No tragedy like this is printed earlier than Shakespeare's, but it is thought to have something to do with Thomas Hyd and his "The spanish tragedy"
The plot
The story is set at the castle of Elsinore, where one night the spirit of the old Hamlet appears, he was the king of Denmark and he died poisoned.He confesses to his son, also named Hamlet, that he was poisoned by his brother, Claudio, who then married his widow, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet must therefore avenge him, but decides to pretend to be crazy so as not to arouse suspicion about his plan of revenge. After this apparition, the young Hamlet recites the famous monologue "Be or not be" - in which he reflects on the destiny of man and the transience of life. Here appears Ophelia, Claudius' young lover, whom the king has given the task of spying on Hamlet to understand the reason for his madness. Ophelia is, in fact, in love with Hamlet, but the prince drives her away, not wanting to confess that she has always been in love with her. At the castle comes a theatre company to which Hamlet has to recite the drama that struck his father, to verify the reaction of his uncle who, before the staging, is evidently overwhelmed by anxiety. On that very occasion Hamlet makes his uncle understand that he knows the truth about his father’s death.
The plot
The story is set at the castle of Elsinore, where one night the spirit of the old Hamlet appears, he was the king of Denmark and he died poisoned.He confesses to his son, also named Hamlet, that he was poisoned by his brother, Claudio, who then married his widow, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet must therefore avenge him, but decides to pretend to be crazy so as not to arouse suspicion about his plan of revenge. After this apparition, the young Hamlet recites the famous monologue "Be or not be" - in which he reflects on the destiny of man and the transience of life. Here appears Ophelia, Claudius' young lover, whom the king has given the task of spying on Hamlet to understand the reason for his madness. Ophelia is, in fact, in love with Hamlet, but the prince drives her away, not wanting to confess that she has always been in love with her. At the castle comes a theatre company to which Hamlet has to recite the drama that struck his father, to verify the reaction of his uncle who, before the staging, is evidently overwhelmed by anxiety. On that very occasion Hamlet makes his uncle understand that he knows the truth about his father’s death.
The plot pt.2
From that moment on, both Hamlet and Claudius conspire against each other.Hamlet, in another scene, accuses his mother and kills Ophelia’s father, thinking he was listening to them. Meanwhile, Claudius decides more than ever to get rid of Hamlet, sending him on a mission to England, but the group is captured by pirates; Hamlet is saved, the others die. Ophelia, grieved because Hamlet not only repudiated her but also killed her father, goes mad. Once home, Hamlet discovers that the young Ophelia has killed herself and that her brother is coming to avenge the deaths of his sister and father. The duel between the two is to the death: Hamlet wins the first assault and Queen Gertrude, toasting to his health, drinks from the poisoned cup and dies. Meanwhile, the duelists, in the confusion that follows, exchange several times the foil and are both fatally hit by the tip soaked in poison. When the queen and Laertes (Ophelia’s brother) are dead, Hamlet decides to reveal the truth of his father’s tragic death to Hamlet, who, in anger, throws herself on the king and stabs him with the sword he has indicted, then forces him to drink from the poisoned cup. In the end Hamlet is also hit, but asks Horace to pass on his story to posterity.
Setting
The whole play takes place inside Elsinore’s castle, except for Act Five scene one, which takes place just outside, or possibly in the grounds of the castle. This confined setting reflects Hamlet’s situation. He feels trapped by his duty to his father and his duty as a member of the Danish royal family, so his story is confined behind the battlements of the Danish royal fortress. Ophelia has a “closet”—a private space—and so does Gertrude. Claudius prays in a private chapel. These private spaces reflect the play’s obsession with how people behave when they are not performing for other people. But the characters' privacy is often disturbed or spied upon.
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The characters
Claudius
Gertrude
Hamlet
The Prince of Denmark, the protagonist. Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the King Hamlet. Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle’s scheming and disgust for his mother’s sexuality. He is reflective and thoughtful young man, Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts.
The King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling,his love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere.
The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to Claudius. Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is a shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral rectitude or truth.
The characters
Ophelia
The ghost
Laertes
The specter of Hamlet’s recently deceased father.The Ghost, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius, calls upon Hamlet to avenge him. However, it is not entirely certain whether the Ghost is what it appears to be, or whether it is something else. Hamlet speculates that the Ghost might be a devil sent to deceive him and tempt him into murder, and the question of what the Ghost is or where it comes from is never definitively resolved.
Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes. Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered.
Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother, a young man who spends much of the play in France. Passionate and quick to action, Laertes is clearly a foil for the reflective Hamlet.
The most iconic characters
Hamlet
The ghost
Ophelia
Claudius
The themes
The thems of death
The themes of revenge
The theme of death envelops the work from its very beginning, where the ghost of Hamlet's father introduces the idea of death and its consequences. The disorder was caused by the unnatural death of the king, soon followed by a series of deaths, suicides, revenges and accidental deaths. He fears that tempting him are negative spirits who have taken the form of his father's ghost.
Although Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, its main character is incapable of taking revenge for his father's murder. For various continuous reasons he postpones his intent. The causes of this procrastination have been a source of debate for centuries, and even today Hamlet symbolizes.
Themes pt.2
The thems of madness
Throughout the tragedy
Hamlet's madness is an ambiguous madness. It seems like a madness simulated to take advantage of appearing insane, so as not to make the king suspect his plan for revenge. When Hamlet is alone, or with people he trusts (Orazio) he is fully aware and lucid, and capable of deep reflection. On other occasions, he feigns madness because he is aware of his role as an avenger, and he deems feigning madness the most sensible thing in that role. Hamlet is not the only character to play madness. Ophelia is also considered a "mad". Ophelia's madness is clear, and caused by too much suffering and disappointed expectations of her life
performance/ movies / quotes
Italian Hamlet
The first staging of Hamlet, which was translated by Francesco Gritti, was staged at the Teatro Malibran in Venice for nine nights in 1774. It was not faithful to the original, but was deeply modified because mirrored the Corneillian conflict between love and duty. For this reason the plot was changed and, only according to Gritti, improved compared to the original. The title already highlighted the differences with Shakespeare: Hamlet tragedy by M. Ducis in imitation of Shakespeare's English.
Italian actor who played Hamlet
- Alemanno Morelli (he was the first italian to play Hamlet's role)
- Ernesto Rossi (six years later Alemanno Morelli
- Tommaso Salvini (in 1856)
- Ermete Novelli (from 1887 to 1933)
- Ferruccio Garavaglia (1909)
- Ruggero Ruggeri (in 1915 and in 1926)
- Alessandro Moissi (in 1934)
- Memmo Benassi (in 1937)
- Renzo Ricci (from 1936 to 1944)
- Vittorio Gassman (1952)
- Gabriele Lavia (in the 80s)
- Valter Malosti (in 2013)
- Valerio Binasco (in 2019)
In Japan too?
The Japanese debut took place in 1903 by Otojirō Kawakami in a show with Shinpa traits.In 1911 Tsubouchi Shōyō translated and produced a new Japanese play that blended Kabuki and Shingeki, in an experimental style that reached its peak with Tsuneari Fukuda's 1955 performance.The fusion of Japanese theater techniques and Shakespearean text also characterizes modern shows such as the nō-style once directed by Tsuneari Fukuda in 1998.
Zeffirelli's Hamlet
Franco Zeffirelli directed the film "Hamlet", which was released in the cinema in 1990.
the film tells of the events that revolve around hamlet, son of the murdered king of Denmark who, after a visit from his father's ghost, decides to take revenge on the murderer, Claudio, who has meanwhile become king and married the king's widow
The film was produced by Canal+, Carolco Pictures, Icon Entertainment International, Marquis, Nelson Entertainment, Sovereign Pictures and Warner Bros Pictures. The film was shot in various locations like Scotland at Dover Castle, other locations were in England and Thionville, France. Filming lasted from April 23 to June 14, 1990. The Film, however, was a real failure, it was considered unfaithful and atypical
the zaffirelli cast
In the cast were present :
- Mel Gibson in the role of Hamlet
- Glenn Close in the role of Gertrude
- Helena Bonham Carter in the role of Ophelia
- Paul Scofield in the role of the King
- Alan Bates in the role of Claudio
- Ian Holm as Polonio
- Stephan Dillan as Orazio
- Nathaniel Parker as Laerte
Quotes
And the quotes ? One moment please! Here they are!
Brevity is the soul of wit.” Polonius 2.2.92
To be or not to be, that is the question. Hamlet 3.1.57
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Marcellus 1.4.95
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dream of in your philosophy. Hamlet 1.5.168
The end
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Hamlet
By Cristina Assisi, Valeria Bendetto, Federico Capobianchi, Iris Pacifici
Let's begin!
are you ready?
Steps
The Themes
Source
Performance
The Plot
Setting
Movies
Characters
Quotes
Hamlet? What is?
Hamlet is the first modern play in history of literature, this play was probably written between 1600 and the summer of 1602.It has the structure of a typical revenge play, but in this play revenge is paired with dubs,questions and uncertainties. The play is also a very deep reflection on the nature of theatre, and a reflection on the universal meaning of life
+The role of women
Sources
The immediate source of Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a play that was performed in Elizabethan theatres in the 1580s and 1590s, telling the story of a Danish prince called Hamlet who wanted to avenge his father’s death.
No tragedy like this is printed earlier than Shakespeare's, but it is thought to have something to do with Thomas Hyd and his "The spanish tragedy"
The plot
The story is set at the castle of Elsinore, where one night the spirit of the old Hamlet appears, he was the king of Denmark and he died poisoned.He confesses to his son, also named Hamlet, that he was poisoned by his brother, Claudio, who then married his widow, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet must therefore avenge him, but decides to pretend to be crazy so as not to arouse suspicion about his plan of revenge. After this apparition, the young Hamlet recites the famous monologue "Be or not be" - in which he reflects on the destiny of man and the transience of life. Here appears Ophelia, Claudius' young lover, whom the king has given the task of spying on Hamlet to understand the reason for his madness. Ophelia is, in fact, in love with Hamlet, but the prince drives her away, not wanting to confess that she has always been in love with her. At the castle comes a theatre company to which Hamlet has to recite the drama that struck his father, to verify the reaction of his uncle who, before the staging, is evidently overwhelmed by anxiety. On that very occasion Hamlet makes his uncle understand that he knows the truth about his father’s death.
The plot
The story is set at the castle of Elsinore, where one night the spirit of the old Hamlet appears, he was the king of Denmark and he died poisoned.He confesses to his son, also named Hamlet, that he was poisoned by his brother, Claudio, who then married his widow, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet must therefore avenge him, but decides to pretend to be crazy so as not to arouse suspicion about his plan of revenge. After this apparition, the young Hamlet recites the famous monologue "Be or not be" - in which he reflects on the destiny of man and the transience of life. Here appears Ophelia, Claudius' young lover, whom the king has given the task of spying on Hamlet to understand the reason for his madness. Ophelia is, in fact, in love with Hamlet, but the prince drives her away, not wanting to confess that she has always been in love with her. At the castle comes a theatre company to which Hamlet has to recite the drama that struck his father, to verify the reaction of his uncle who, before the staging, is evidently overwhelmed by anxiety. On that very occasion Hamlet makes his uncle understand that he knows the truth about his father’s death.
The plot pt.2
From that moment on, both Hamlet and Claudius conspire against each other.Hamlet, in another scene, accuses his mother and kills Ophelia’s father, thinking he was listening to them. Meanwhile, Claudius decides more than ever to get rid of Hamlet, sending him on a mission to England, but the group is captured by pirates; Hamlet is saved, the others die. Ophelia, grieved because Hamlet not only repudiated her but also killed her father, goes mad. Once home, Hamlet discovers that the young Ophelia has killed herself and that her brother is coming to avenge the deaths of his sister and father. The duel between the two is to the death: Hamlet wins the first assault and Queen Gertrude, toasting to his health, drinks from the poisoned cup and dies. Meanwhile, the duelists, in the confusion that follows, exchange several times the foil and are both fatally hit by the tip soaked in poison. When the queen and Laertes (Ophelia’s brother) are dead, Hamlet decides to reveal the truth of his father’s tragic death to Hamlet, who, in anger, throws herself on the king and stabs him with the sword he has indicted, then forces him to drink from the poisoned cup. In the end Hamlet is also hit, but asks Horace to pass on his story to posterity.
Setting
The whole play takes place inside Elsinore’s castle, except for Act Five scene one, which takes place just outside, or possibly in the grounds of the castle. This confined setting reflects Hamlet’s situation. He feels trapped by his duty to his father and his duty as a member of the Danish royal family, so his story is confined behind the battlements of the Danish royal fortress. Ophelia has a “closet”—a private space—and so does Gertrude. Claudius prays in a private chapel. These private spaces reflect the play’s obsession with how people behave when they are not performing for other people. But the characters' privacy is often disturbed or spied upon.
We help you with a map
The characters
Claudius
Gertrude
Hamlet
The Prince of Denmark, the protagonist. Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the King Hamlet. Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle’s scheming and disgust for his mother’s sexuality. He is reflective and thoughtful young man, Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts.
The King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling,his love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere.
The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to Claudius. Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is a shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral rectitude or truth.
The characters
Ophelia
The ghost
Laertes
The specter of Hamlet’s recently deceased father.The Ghost, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius, calls upon Hamlet to avenge him. However, it is not entirely certain whether the Ghost is what it appears to be, or whether it is something else. Hamlet speculates that the Ghost might be a devil sent to deceive him and tempt him into murder, and the question of what the Ghost is or where it comes from is never definitively resolved.
Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes. Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered.
Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother, a young man who spends much of the play in France. Passionate and quick to action, Laertes is clearly a foil for the reflective Hamlet.
The most iconic characters
Hamlet
The ghost
Ophelia
Claudius
The themes
The thems of death
The themes of revenge
The theme of death envelops the work from its very beginning, where the ghost of Hamlet's father introduces the idea of death and its consequences. The disorder was caused by the unnatural death of the king, soon followed by a series of deaths, suicides, revenges and accidental deaths. He fears that tempting him are negative spirits who have taken the form of his father's ghost.
Although Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, its main character is incapable of taking revenge for his father's murder. For various continuous reasons he postpones his intent. The causes of this procrastination have been a source of debate for centuries, and even today Hamlet symbolizes.
Themes pt.2
The thems of madness
Throughout the tragedy Hamlet's madness is an ambiguous madness. It seems like a madness simulated to take advantage of appearing insane, so as not to make the king suspect his plan for revenge. When Hamlet is alone, or with people he trusts (Orazio) he is fully aware and lucid, and capable of deep reflection. On other occasions, he feigns madness because he is aware of his role as an avenger, and he deems feigning madness the most sensible thing in that role. Hamlet is not the only character to play madness. Ophelia is also considered a "mad". Ophelia's madness is clear, and caused by too much suffering and disappointed expectations of her life
performance/ movies / quotes
Italian Hamlet
The first staging of Hamlet, which was translated by Francesco Gritti, was staged at the Teatro Malibran in Venice for nine nights in 1774. It was not faithful to the original, but was deeply modified because mirrored the Corneillian conflict between love and duty. For this reason the plot was changed and, only according to Gritti, improved compared to the original. The title already highlighted the differences with Shakespeare: Hamlet tragedy by M. Ducis in imitation of Shakespeare's English.
Italian actor who played Hamlet
In Japan too?
The Japanese debut took place in 1903 by Otojirō Kawakami in a show with Shinpa traits.In 1911 Tsubouchi Shōyō translated and produced a new Japanese play that blended Kabuki and Shingeki, in an experimental style that reached its peak with Tsuneari Fukuda's 1955 performance.The fusion of Japanese theater techniques and Shakespearean text also characterizes modern shows such as the nō-style once directed by Tsuneari Fukuda in 1998.
Zeffirelli's Hamlet
Franco Zeffirelli directed the film "Hamlet", which was released in the cinema in 1990.
the film tells of the events that revolve around hamlet, son of the murdered king of Denmark who, after a visit from his father's ghost, decides to take revenge on the murderer, Claudio, who has meanwhile become king and married the king's widow
The film was produced by Canal+, Carolco Pictures, Icon Entertainment International, Marquis, Nelson Entertainment, Sovereign Pictures and Warner Bros Pictures. The film was shot in various locations like Scotland at Dover Castle, other locations were in England and Thionville, France. Filming lasted from April 23 to June 14, 1990. The Film, however, was a real failure, it was considered unfaithful and atypical
the zaffirelli cast
In the cast were present :
Quotes
And the quotes ? One moment please! Here they are!
Brevity is the soul of wit.” Polonius 2.2.92
To be or not to be, that is the question. Hamlet 3.1.57
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Marcellus 1.4.95
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dream of in your philosophy. Hamlet 1.5.168
The end