Hamlet (In Our Time)
1600 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, most quoted and longest play, written c1599 - 1602 and rewritten throughout his lifetime. It is the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, encouraged by his father's ghost to take revenge on his uncle who murdered him, and is set at the court of Elsinore. In soliloquies, the Prince reveals his inner self
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1600
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)