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*** Creator/RobertShaw, as Claudius, might have been familiar to audiences as an assassin in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', but his most memorable roles - King UsefulNotes/HenryVIII in ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'', Doyle Lonegan in ''Film/TheSting'', and especially Quint in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' - were still years away.
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*** Creator/RobertShaw, as Claudius, might have been familiar to audiences as an assassin in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', but his most memorable roles - King UsefulNotes/HenryVIII in ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'', Doyle Lonegan Lonnegan in ''Film/TheSting'', and especially Quint in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' - were still years away.
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* IncestYayShipping: Laertes and Ophelia. Laertes even gets into a tussle with Hamlet over who loves her more, and he shows a fascination with her sex life (or lack of).
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* IncestYayShipping: IncestYayShipping:
** Laertes and Ophelia. Laertes even gets into a tussle with Hamlet over who loves her more, and he shows a fascination with her sex life (or lack of).
** Laertes and Ophelia. Laertes even gets into a tussle with Hamlet over who loves her more, and he shows a fascination with her sex life (or lack of).
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* {{Moe}}: '''Ophelia.'''
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** At the end of the "Play Within a Play" scene, Claudius has the line, "Bring me some light! Away!" It is '''very''' difficult to portray this seriously.
*** In Branagh's version, Derek Jacobi nails it. His achievement is then ruined by the overreaction of his sycophants, who begin to scream "LIGHTS, LIGHTS, LIGHTS!" like they are trapped in a darkened room.
*** In Branagh's version, Derek Jacobi nails it. His achievement is then ruined by the overreaction of his sycophants, who begin to scream "LIGHTS, LIGHTS, LIGHTS!" like they are trapped in a darkened room.
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** At the end of the "Play Within a Play" scene, Claudius has the line, "Bring me some light! Away!" It is '''very''' difficult to portray this seriously.
***seriously. In Branagh's version, Derek Jacobi nails it. His achievement is then ruined by the overreaction of his sycophants, who begin to scream "LIGHTS, LIGHTS, LIGHTS!" like they are trapped in a darkened room.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Reynaldo in the 1969 film is played by Creator/RogerLloydPack, who would later be best known for playing Trigger in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and Owen Newitt in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: RetroactiveRecognition:
** To a 21st-century audience, the cast of the 1964 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]][=/=]Creator/{{DR}} co-production ''Hamlet at Elsinore'' looks positively star-studded. To the first TV audiences, the cast was full of almost complete unknowns.
*** Creator/ChristopherPlummer, as Hamlet, was mostly known for his stage work in 1964; although he had a few film credits under his belt, his StarMakingRole as Captain von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' was still a year away.
*** Although filming on ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' had finished by the time Creator/MichaelCaine stepped into the role of Horatio (his only "classical drama" credit), it had yet to be released into cinemas. Within two years, ''Zulu'', ''Film/TheIpcressFile'', and ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' had catapulted him to the A-list.
*** Creator/RobertShaw, as Claudius, might have been familiar to audiences as an assassin in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', but his most memorable roles - King UsefulNotes/HenryVIII in ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'', Doyle Lonegan in ''Film/TheSting'', and especially Quint in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' - were still years away.
*** The grave-digger was played by ''Series/ThatWasTheWeekThatWas'' alumnus Creator/RoyKinnear, whose roles as Algernon in ''Film/{{Help}}'', Mr. Salt in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', and Planchet in Creator/RichardLester's ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' trilogy were still ahead of him.
*** The Player King was played by character actor David Swift. Contemporary audiences may know him best as grumpy veteran newscaster Henry Davenport in ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'', a series that was still over 25 years in the future.
*** Fortinbras was played by a young Canadian actor who had mostly worked in theatre and a few low-budget films. Three years later, he was cast as Pinkley in ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'', and three more years later, as Oddball in ''Film/KellysHeroes'' and Hawkeye in ''Film/{{MASH}}''... guaranteeing that later viewers would see him and say "Hey! Creator/DonaldSutherland!"
** Reynaldo in the 1969 film is played by Creator/RogerLloydPack, who would later be best known for playing Trigger in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and Owen Newitt in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
** To a 21st-century audience, the cast of the 1964 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]][=/=]Creator/{{DR}} co-production ''Hamlet at Elsinore'' looks positively star-studded. To the first TV audiences, the cast was full of almost complete unknowns.
*** Creator/ChristopherPlummer, as Hamlet, was mostly known for his stage work in 1964; although he had a few film credits under his belt, his StarMakingRole as Captain von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' was still a year away.
*** Although filming on ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' had finished by the time Creator/MichaelCaine stepped into the role of Horatio (his only "classical drama" credit), it had yet to be released into cinemas. Within two years, ''Zulu'', ''Film/TheIpcressFile'', and ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' had catapulted him to the A-list.
*** Creator/RobertShaw, as Claudius, might have been familiar to audiences as an assassin in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', but his most memorable roles - King UsefulNotes/HenryVIII in ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'', Doyle Lonegan in ''Film/TheSting'', and especially Quint in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' - were still years away.
*** The grave-digger was played by ''Series/ThatWasTheWeekThatWas'' alumnus Creator/RoyKinnear, whose roles as Algernon in ''Film/{{Help}}'', Mr. Salt in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', and Planchet in Creator/RichardLester's ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' trilogy were still ahead of him.
*** The Player King was played by character actor David Swift. Contemporary audiences may know him best as grumpy veteran newscaster Henry Davenport in ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'', a series that was still over 25 years in the future.
*** Fortinbras was played by a young Canadian actor who had mostly worked in theatre and a few low-budget films. Three years later, he was cast as Pinkley in ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'', and three more years later, as Oddball in ''Film/KellysHeroes'' and Hawkeye in ''Film/{{MASH}}''... guaranteeing that later viewers would see him and say "Hey! Creator/DonaldSutherland!"
** Reynaldo in the 1969 film is played by Creator/RogerLloydPack, who would later be best known for playing Trigger in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and Owen Newitt in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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* FountainOfMemes: Hamlet and Polonius alone are responsible for a good portion of Shakespearian lines that have made it into the English lexicon, detailed below under MemeticMutation.
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** Many of Polonius's lines, despite being written as vapid aphorisms, have become sincere pearls of wisdom in the English language:
*** "To thine own self be true."
*** [[HypocriticalHumor "Brevity is the soul of wit."]]
*** Neither a borrower or lender be."
*** "To thine own self be true."
*** [[HypocriticalHumor "Brevity is the soul of wit."]]
*** Neither a borrower or lender be."
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Zefirelli version completely removes the Hecuba monologue, thereby rendering Hamlet's "Oh what an ass am I" sequence afterwards one of these.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Zefirelli version completely removes the Hecuba monologue, thereby rendering Hamlet's "Oh what an ass am I" sequence afterwards one of these.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon:
** The sheer number of lines in the play that have become established expressions in English can make it seem like all Shakespeare has done is just string a bunch of clichés together (a common joke is someone unaware of the play being the origin of the sayings thinking it is just one boring cliché after another). Indeed, the overexposure of this play has often made it difficult, in the views of dramatists, to properly stage it, since the Hamlet of the text is not necessarily the same as the Hamlet that the audience wants or expects.
** Most people have heard ''Hamlet'' praised as "the crowning achievement of Elizabethan drama" so often that it's easy to forget that it was once seen, especially in the 18th century as an avant-garde play. While popular among the public, critics didn't like the play for its violation of Creator/{{Aristotle}}'s ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'', and the fact that the play very self-consciously delays its obvious conclusion (Hamlet killing Claudius) for reasons entirely due to the hero's character. Later generations saw Hamlet as a groundbreaking play for consciously sliding that far to the "Character" side of the SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters, which led to so many more radical tweaks and changes, that today, Hamlet is proverbial for its baroque revenge plot and machinations, when in fact it's a highly character-driven work.
** The sheer number of lines in the play that have become established expressions in English can make it seem like all Shakespeare has done is just string a bunch of clichés together (a common joke is someone unaware of the play being the origin of the sayings thinking it is just one boring cliché after another). Indeed, the overexposure of this play has often made it difficult, in the views of dramatists, to properly stage it, since the Hamlet of the text is not necessarily the same as the Hamlet that the audience wants or expects.
** Most people have heard ''Hamlet'' praised as "the crowning achievement of Elizabethan drama" so often that it's easy to forget that it was once seen, especially in the 18th century as an avant-garde play. While popular among the public, critics didn't like the play for its violation of Creator/{{Aristotle}}'s ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'', and the fact that the play very self-consciously delays its obvious conclusion (Hamlet killing Claudius) for reasons entirely due to the hero's character. Later generations saw Hamlet as a groundbreaking play for consciously sliding that far to the "Character" side of the SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters, which led to so many more radical tweaks and changes, that today, Hamlet is proverbial for its baroque revenge plot and machinations, when in fact it's a highly character-driven work.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** The sheer number of lines in the play that have become established expressions in English can make it seem like all Shakespeare has done is just string a bunch of clichés together (a common joke is someone unaware of the play being the origin of the sayings thinking it is just one boring cliché after another). Indeed, the overexposure of this play has often made it difficult, in the views of dramatists, to properly stage it, since the Hamlet of the text is not necessarily the same as the Hamlet that the audience wants or expects.
** Most people have heard ''Hamlet'' praised as "the crowning achievement of Elizabethan drama" so often that it's easy to forget that it was once seen, especially in the 18th century as an avant-garde play. While popular among the public, critics didn't like the play for its violation of Creator/{{Aristotle}}'s ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'', and the fact that the play very self-consciously delays its obvious conclusion (Hamlet killing Claudius) for reasons entirely due to the hero's character. Later generations saw Hamlet as a groundbreaking play for consciously sliding that far to the "Character" side of the SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters, which led to so many more radical tweaks and changes, that today, Hamlet is proverbial for its baroque revenge plot and machinations, when in fact it's a highly character-driven work.
** The sheer number of lines in the play that have become established expressions in English can make it seem like all Shakespeare has done is just string a bunch of clichés together (a common joke is someone unaware of the play being the origin of the sayings thinking it is just one boring cliché after another). Indeed, the overexposure of this play has often made it difficult, in the views of dramatists, to properly stage it, since the Hamlet of the text is not necessarily the same as the Hamlet that the audience wants or expects.
** Most people have heard ''Hamlet'' praised as "the crowning achievement of Elizabethan drama" so often that it's easy to forget that it was once seen, especially in the 18th century as an avant-garde play. While popular among the public, critics didn't like the play for its violation of Creator/{{Aristotle}}'s ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'', and the fact that the play very self-consciously delays its obvious conclusion (Hamlet killing Claudius) for reasons entirely due to the hero's character. Later generations saw Hamlet as a groundbreaking play for consciously sliding that far to the "Character" side of the SlidingScaleOfPlotVersusCharacters, which led to so many more radical tweaks and changes, that today, Hamlet is proverbial for its baroque revenge plot and machinations, when in fact it's a highly character-driven work.
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** "To be or not to be, that is the question..."
** "Alas, poor Yorick!"
** "X, thy name is Y!"
** "Alas, poor Yorick!"
** "X, thy name is Y!"
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** "To be or not to be, that is the question..."
"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The opening line from Hamlet's soliloquy about whether to off himself in Act 3, Scene 1, and quite possibly one of the most famous quotes in English literature.[[/labelnote]]
** "Alas, poorYorick!"
Yorick!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hamlet soliloquizing to the skull of the deceased jester Yorick while holding it in his hand is so iconic it [[AlasPoorYorick named a trope]].[[/labelnote]]
** "X, thy name isY!"Y!"[[labelnote:Explanation]][[FountainOfMemes Yet another quote from Hamlet]] that's been used as an OlderThanRadio snowclone to state that Y embodies X, with the original line being "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (Act 1, Scene 2).[[/labelnote]]
** "Alas, poor
** "X, thy name is
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** "O fuck." (Exit HAMLET.)[[labelnote:Explanation]]From "Skinhead Hamlet", a 1981 parody of the play. Hamlet's reaction to meeting his father's ghost in Act 1 is entirely condensed down into this one line, which is often jokingly framed as a line from the original play and occasionally used to say "ScrewThisImOuttaHere".[[/labelnote]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Reynaldo in the 1969 film is played by Creator/RogerLloydPack, who would later be best known for playing Trigger in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and Owen Newitt in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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Why is Ophelia a Woobie? "See this other trope" is not an example. Zero Context Example. Please explain before readding.
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** Ophelia. See also BreakTheCutie, KillTheCutie, and ButtMonkey.
** Almost everybody, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on your point of view]].
** Ophelia. See also BreakTheCutie, KillTheCutie, and ButtMonkey.
** Almost everybody, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on your point of view]].
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** Ophelia. See also BreakTheCutie, KillTheCutie, and ButtMonkey.
** Almost everybody, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on your point of view]].
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* MoralEventHorizon:
** Arguably, Claudius letting the Queen drink from the poisoned cup. He earlier claimed to truly love her, but only tells her to not drink from the cup once rather than risk giving up his scheme, not to save her life.
** That depends on the production. He could be on the other side of the stage from her, and unable to do anything without betraying that the cup is poisoned.
** Also, using Laertes' grief at his sister's death to manipulate him into being his pawn... though to be perfectly fair to Claudius, Hamlet actually ''did'' kill Laertes' father and indirectly cause the death of his sister, so the extent to which this is manipulation is debatable.
** Frankly murdering his own brother to steal his kingdom and his wife probably crosses this before the play even starts.
** Arguably, Claudius letting the Queen drink from the poisoned cup. He earlier claimed to truly love her, but only tells her to not drink from the cup once rather than risk giving up his scheme, not to save her life.
** That depends on the production. He could be on the other side of the stage from her, and unable to do anything without betraying that the cup is poisoned.
** Also, using Laertes' grief at his sister's death to manipulate him into being his pawn... though to be perfectly fair to Claudius, Hamlet actually ''did'' kill Laertes' father and indirectly cause the death of his sister, so the extent to which this is manipulation is debatable.
** Frankly murdering his own brother to steal his kingdom and his wife probably crosses this before the play even starts.
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* DesignatedVillain: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Since Claudius killed Hamlet's father all by himself, he'd have no reason to confide in them or anyone else about it. So R&G might not see anything vile about obeying his summons and check out their old friend, Hamlet, and see if they can find out what's wrong with him. When Claudius sends R&G to England with Hamlet, he gives them a sealed envelope for the English which orders Hamlet's immediate execution. Since these orders are sealed, ''[[UnwittingPawn there's nothing to indicate R&G knew]] what those SealedOrders were.'' Yet when Hamlet breaks into their cabin and opens the seal and reads the order, he changes the order making it for R&G's immediate executions. Since Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates on the way to England, [[FridgeHorror R&G would have no reason to deliver those ealed orders if they already knew what those orders originally were]].
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* DesignatedVillain: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Since Claudius killed Hamlet's father all by himself, he'd have no reason to confide in them or anyone else about it. So R&G might not see anything vile about obeying his summons and check out their old friend, Hamlet, and see if they can find out what's wrong with him. When Claudius sends R&G to England with Hamlet, he gives them a sealed envelope for the English which orders Hamlet's immediate execution. Since these orders are sealed, ''[[UnwittingPawn there's nothing to indicate R&G knew]] what those SealedOrders were.'' Yet when Hamlet breaks into their cabin and opens the seal and reads the order, he changes the order making it for R&G's immediate executions. Since Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates on the way to England, [[FridgeHorror R&G would have no reason to deliver those ealed sealed orders if they already knew what those orders originally were]].
