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It depends to a certain extent upon what you count as an adaptation. IMdb lists 182 films and TV shows which have a character called Hamlet. The earliest of these is the earliest film adaptation of Hamlet, by Sarah Bernhardt in 1900. Some of these are TV shows in which a production of Hamlet is alluded to tangentially. There are also some films, such as To Be or Not To Be, which refer to the play but it is not the main action.
On the other hand, productions in which the characters have different names and occasionally which have different plots are sometimes claimed to be adaptations of Hamlet. The most ridiculous example is The Lion King, which claims to be an adaptation of Hamlet, yet the supposed Hamlet character does not have a girlfriend who is the daughter of the king's counsellor, is not forced to remain in court after his father's death, does not feign madness, is not told about an appearance of the ghost of his father, is not spied upon by the king, does not have issues with his mother, does not kill his girlfriend's father, or the king's counsellor, or anyone, does not attend his girlfriend's funeral because she neither goes insane or dies, does not have any issue with his girlfriend's brother because she doesn't have one, and so is not the victim of an attempt on his life by the king, and finally who does not die at the end. If we count this as a Hamlet adaptation we must also count every film with some vague similarity to the Hamlet story, including Shakespeare's own Macbeth and Richard III, running the number of potential films into the thousands.
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∙ 13y agoAll of Shakespeare's plays have been played many times on stage. Even in Shakespeare's day, the playing company would occasionally dust off an old play and perform it again. The title pages of many of his plays say they were performed "sundrie times" which means many times.
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∙ 11y agoOnce for the Danish Prime Minister on the night of his fourteenth wedding anniversary in 1998. And tens of thousands of other times, beyond count over the last 400 years.
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How many copies of hamlet have been sold?
Too many.
How many times does the word reason appear in hamlet?
lots
How many times have Marcellus and Bernardo seen the ghost of King Hamlet?
to see if its really a ghost
What are Rosencrantz and Guildensterns relation to Hamlet?
Hamlet does not reveal much to these two. They go to him in order to find out about where Polonius has been buried, but they do not get many answers.
How many times had the ghost appeared when Hamlet opened?
Marcellus says to Horatio that the sight has been "twice seen of us", meaning that he and Barnardo have seen it twice before the play starts.
How many times the ghost appears throughout the play in Hamlet?
If we talk about the ghost ,it was Hamlet's father King Hamlet's ghost and it appears four times throughout the play.
How many times does the word nothing appear in Hamlet?
29 times
How many copies of hamlet have been sold?
Too many.
How many times does the word reason appear in hamlet?
lots
How many times have Marcellus and Bernardo seen the ghost of King Hamlet?
to see if its really a ghost
What are Rosencrantz and Guildensterns relation to Hamlet?
Hamlet does not reveal much to these two. They go to him in order to find out about where Polonius has been buried, but they do not get many answers.
How many times had the ghost appeared when Hamlet opened?
Marcellus says to Horatio that the sight has been "twice seen of us", meaning that he and Barnardo have seen it twice before the play starts.
How has the stock NYT performed?
The New York Times Stock has had, like many other stocks, variable performance. At times, the stock has performed well. Yet, during times of economic recession or pressure, the stock has been known to flounder.
What previous work influenced Shakespeare's Hamlet?
The Hamlet story got into popular culture by means of Belleforest's telling of the tale. However, many scholars believe that there may have been an earlier Hamlet play (which they call the Ur-Hamlet) which was the direct source for Shakespeare's work. There is an intriguing German play on the Hamlet story called Der Brudermord (The Brother-killer) which appears to have been translated from an Elizabethan revenge play very much in the style of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Was this the Ur-Hamlet? Could be.
Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
The gravedigger, not Hamlet, discovers the skull of the jester Yorick, who Hamlet knew as a child, and has been dead for many years.
How many times has the play Macbeth been performed in the globe theatre?
Which Globe Theatre are you talking about? We know it was performed at least once at the first Globe in London, in April of 1610.
What was the most famous play performed at the globe theatre?
OK, although there is no "fame-o-meter" by which we can determine which of a group of things is the most famous, there will be many who claim that Hamlet is the most famous play of all time in any language. And Hamlet (which premiered around 1601) was surely performed at the Globe (which was built in 1599).
