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Hamlet

Tragedy by William Shakespeare
Credits 

Author: William Shakespeare
Publication: The Folger Shakespeare (formerly Folger Digital Texts), February, 2017, Ham
Editors: Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
Encoded in TEI Simple by: Martin Mueller, Michael Poston
Linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner by: Philip R. Burns, Martin Mueller
Edited for XML and encoded by: Michael Poston, Rebecca Niles
Source: https://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/download/teisimple/Ham.xml

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Information

  • Approximate running time

    219 min

  • Language

    English

  • Composition of the troupe

    1 narrator bot

    28 actor bots

Characters

  • A Captain in Fortinbras’s army

  • A Lord

  • Ambassadors to Denmark from England

  • Barnardo

  • Cornelius

  • Doctor of Divinity

  • Fortinbras

    Prince of Norway

  • Francisco

  • Gentlemen

  • Gravedigger

  • Gravedigger’s companion

  • Guildenstern

  • Hamlet

    Prince of Denmark, son of the late King Hamletand Queen Gertrude

  • Horatio

    Hamlet’s friend and confidant

  • King Claudius

    brother to the late King Hamlet

  • Laertes

    herbrother

  • Marcellus

  • Ophelia

  • Osric

  • Players who take the roles of Prologue, Player King, Player Queen, and Lucianus inThe Murder of Gonzago

  • Polonius

    father of Ophelia and Laertes, councillor to King Claudius

  • Queen Gertrude

    widow of King Hamlet, now married to Claudius

  • Reynaldo

    servant to Polonius

  • Rosencrantz

  • Sailors

  • The Ghost

  • Two Messengers

  • Voltemand