Hamlet (disambiguation)

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Hamlet is a play by William Shakespeare (see below for affiliated terms).

Hamlet may also refer to:

• Hamlet (place), a settlement, smaller than a village
• Hamlet (fish), a fish of the genus Hypoplectrus
• Hamlet (cigar), a brand of cigar produced by Benson and Hedges
• Hamlet (band), a Spanish band
• The Hamlet, a novel by William Faulkner
• Hamlets, software
• The Hamlets, school in Liverpool, England, formerly junior department of The Belvedere School
• Strategic Hamlet Program, a counter-insurgency program during the Vietnam War
• "Hamlet", the son in the comic strip Hägar the Horrible
• "Hamlet", Danish designation for the FIM-43 Redeye SAM missile
• Hamlet, a comic strip in the British newspaper The Stage

[edit] Places in the United States

• Hamlet, Indiana
  • site of the 1959 Hamlet meteorite
• Hamlet, Nebraska
• Hamlet, New York
• Hamlet, North Carolina

[edit] Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Prince Hamlet, the main character therein
• King Hamlet, his father
• Ur-Hamlet, the (disputed) pre-Shakespearean Hamlet written before 1589
• Hamlet (legend), the original "Hamlet" legends
• Hamlet (opera), opera by Ambroise Thomas
• Hamlet (bibliographies)

[edit] Films named "Hamlet" based on the Shakespeare play

• Hamlet (1900 film), directed by Clément Maurice
• Hamlet (1908 film), directed by Henri Desfontaines
• Hamlet (1920 film), directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall and starring Asta Nielsen
• Hamlet (1948 film), directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
• Hamlet (1964 film), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky
• Hamlet (1969 film), directed by Tony Richardson and starring Nicol Williamson
• Hamlet (1990 film), directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson
• Hamlet (1996 film), directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
• Hamlet (2000 film), directed by Michael Almereyda and starring Ethan Hawke