Hamlet

Hamlet or  'The Tragical Hiftorie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'.  

 'Tragical' it is, but also full of comedy, excitement and much else . . 

as director John Bailey puts 'it a spectacle, it's all in there. A play about a tortured soul? - yes, but much more than this - a thriller with a twisting, turning plot, a ghost story to raise the hairs on the back of the neck, a tale of murder and revenge, a tortured love story - a doomed romance, a tale of ambition and jealousy, a tale of . . . ? Buy tickets, don't miss out - what's not to like?'

Hamlet was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and is still so today -  it has topped the Royal Shakespeare's Company's performance list since 1879. Hamlet has inspired many other writers, leading to seemingly endless re-telling and adaptation, is the origin of many phrases and sayings in common use today, and contains perhaps the greatest soliloquies in English literature. It has been described as 'the world's most filmed story after Cinderella'.