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No, for two reasons:
1. Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play, which means it has to be acted to be understood. Lamb's is a story, and can only be read, not acted.
2. Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play for adults, with a number of adult themes. It is so full of nuances that its possibilities have not been exhausted in 400 years. Lamb's story is a story for Victorian kiddies, with all of the complex issues and dirty stuff edited out.
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Was Hamlet the character based upon Shakespeare's father?
There is no reason to believe so. The story of Hamlet was well-known long before Shakespeare heard about it, and some of the lines of his character were already drawn. Whether he was inspired to change aspects of that character by someone he knew is anyone's guess.
Does a Hamlet have a shop in it?
No a Hamlet is just a few houses in the same area
What is Hamlet based on?
Hamlet is ultimately based on the story of Amleth, which is found in a medieval Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus. Although called a history, the Amleth story, as recorded by Saxo, certainly contains more myth and legend than fact.Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Saxo's Amleth, are quite different in important respects, but the story lines are roughly similar, and Hamlet has a number of incidental details that appeared earlier in 'Amleth.'A French writer, Francois de Belleforest, translated Saxo's story of Amleth into French in 1570, and it probably entered English cultural consciousness via that French translation.There is a reference from 1589 to an English stage version of Hamlet, although it's very doubtful that play was the same one we have now. The earlier 'Hamlet' (called ur-Hamlet) is traditionally ascribed to Thomas Kyd, although some scholars have opined it might have been by Shakespeare.The best guess seems to be that Shakespeare's company obtained the earlier English 'Hamlet', in the mid-1590's, and Shakespeare then reworked it, to make it into the play we have now, as published in the Second Quarto of 1604-1605, and later in the First Folio of 1623.So, according to current thinking, Hamlet probably developed by way of the following path:Saxo's Amleth - >Belleforest's translation ->An English play by Kyd - >Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Why did Shakespeare make Hamlet in Denmark?
Shakespeare set Hamlet in Denmark because that is where the story was set in his sources. He took the story possibly directly from the source story by Belleforest who had taken it from Saxo Grammaticus. In both those sources Hamlet is prince of Denmark. Even more importantly, scholars believe that there was a previous play drawn from Belleforest and possibly by Thomas Kyd also called Hamlet the Prince of Denmark, which was very well-known and thought to have been considered to have been a bit corny. To have written Hamlet Prince of Bavaria would have looked as ridiculous to his audience as Holmes and Watson being based in Las Vegas instead of London.
What quotations did William Shakespeare say in his plays?
We don't know exactly which parts Shakespeare played as an actor. If he played the Ghost in Hamlet, as he is supposed to have done, he must have said, "Murder most foul, as in the best it is." among other things.If you really mean which of Shakespeare's quotations he wrote, the answer is of course all of them.If you want a list of quotations, it's pointless. "To be or not to be" is a quotation; so is "To be or not to be; that is the question"; so is "That is the question"; so is "That is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind"; and so is "nobler in the mind". They are all quotations from the same speech in Act 3 Scene 1 of Hamlet. And you can do the same sort of thing with any speech anywhere in any of the plays.
What term define the famous speech by hamlet in Shakespeare play of the same name?
Siloquy
Where is Shakespeare's Hamlet Home?
Hamlet, the main character in the Shakespeare play of the same name, was from Denmark. Because he was the son of the king, he would have stayed in whatever royal palace his father was staying at. However, Hamlet had spent a number of years in the University at Wittemburg, which was like a second home to him.
Why did Shakespeare write To Be or Not To Be?
The words "To be or not to be" are the opening lines of a rather lengthy soliloquy spoken by Hamlet (in the play of the same name written by William Shakespeare), as he contemplates outloud, his very existence and his options after learning the truth of his father's death (murder), and his mother's and uncle's complicity in the act.
Was Hamlet the character based upon Shakespeare's father?
There is no reason to believe so. The story of Hamlet was well-known long before Shakespeare heard about it, and some of the lines of his character were already drawn. Whether he was inspired to change aspects of that character by someone he knew is anyone's guess.
Did shakespeare name Hamlet after his son?
William Shakespeare's son was called Hamnet. He never directly named any of his plays after his son, but the title of his play 'Hamlet' is of course very close to the name Hamnet. Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' also features twins of different genders (Hamnet had a twin sister named Judith).
How does the name Hamlet relate to Shakespeare?
He wrote the play Hamlet. You might think that the name was developed from his son's name- Hamnet, who died about five years before he wrote the play. But you'd be wrong. Shakespeare's son was named after his neighbour Hamnet Sadler, and his daughter, Hamnet's twin, was named for Hamnet Sadler's wife Judith Sadler. The character in the play was called Hamlet (or some variation on that) for three hundred and fifty years before Shakespeare got hold of it.Thinking that Shakespeare named the character after his son is like thinking that he named the main character in King John after his father, or one of the main female characters in Henry VIII, Anne Bullen, after his wife.
What was the only Best Picture based on a play by William Shakespeare?
"Hamlet," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1948, was based on Shakespeare's play of the same title. But the musical "West Side Story," which was named Best Picture of 1961, was patterned after Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
What roles did Shakespeare play?
We don't have much information about which roles which actors played in Shakespeare's day. Sometimes the printed copy of a play gives the name of the actor instead of the character, which helps. In one of the quartos of Romeo and Juliet the lines for Peter are marked as being for "Kemp" which tells us that Will Kempe played Peter. Unfortunately, we have no such slipup to help us with Shakespeare's roles. There is a legend that he played the Ghost in Hamlet. A contemporary said that Shakespeare favoured "kingly roles".
Who wrote plays Hamlet and Midsummers Night Dream?
If this asked the question who WROTE, A Midsummer Nights Dream" I could tell you : William Shakespeare But as you ask who "Worte" the same I'm afraid I do not know. x
How old was Hamlet when Shakespeare married?
If you mean, "How old was Hamlet, the character in the play, at the time Shakespeare was married?" then your question makes no sense. It's like asking "How old was Donald Duck when Shakespeare was born?" Well, you cannot answer not only because Donald Duck is a fictional character who never ages but also because he was not invented at the time Shakespeare was born. Likewise, if you mean "How old was Shakespeare's play Hamlet at the time Shakespeare was married?", it doesn't make sense because Shakespeare wrote that play after he and Anne were married. The same if by "Hamlet" you mean "Hamnet Shakespeare, William's son" because Hamnet was born in 1585 and his parents were married in 1582. The only way this question could possibly make sense is if you mean "How old was the story of Hamlet when Shakespeare got married in 1582?" Well, the story of Amleth appears in a book called Gesta Danorum (The Acts of the Danes), a kind of Danish history book, written around the year 1200, 382 years before Shakespeare's marriage, give or take a dozen years. Another similar but shorter work called the Chronicon Lethrense was written about thirty years earlier. These books put the events in the Amleth story some time in the 600s AD.
What does Shakespeare's mean by swear?
As an example, the Ghost's line in Hamlet: "Swear!" It's the same word and the same meaning you know in the sentence "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
Does a Hamlet have a shop in it?
No a Hamlet is just a few houses in the same area
