Education Resources

How do we know when Hamlet was written? And what sources and stories influenced Shakespeare when he wrote it? Performance history expert Rebecca Brown presents the evidence.

For the show's programme, the company of the 2008 production of Hamlet created a Rehearsal Scrapbook.

Read director Gregory Doran's rehearsal diary and find out more about what happened behind-the-scenes to put together this production.

Every director will choose their own key moments in Hamlet depending on how they are interpreting the play. Here, we've selected a number of important scenes.

Performance history expert Rebecca Brown guides us through the stage history of Hamlet from the time Shakespeare wrote it to the present day.