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Exploring Shakespeare

Hamlet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamlet:
the key ideas

Characters and
relationships

Language and
themes

Staging choices

Home | Hamlet: Languages and themes | The text

Languages and themes

The director's cut

Elizabethan context

Hamlet - a thriller

Revenge Tragedy

Death and delay


	Thinking on the line


	Who's this? Forbes Mason plays Horatio.


	The text

	Extract from the text of Act 1 Scene 3

	Differences between Elizabethan and modern approaches to line delivery

	Thinking on the line



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