Hamlet is a tragic play by William Shakespeare, based on the story of Jute prince Amleth.

Hamlet may also refer to:

Pertaining to Shakespeare play

  • Prince Hamlet, the protagonist

Film

  • Hamlet (1900 film) or Le Duel d'Hamlet, starring Sarah Bernhardt in the title role
  • Hamlet (1907 film), a French silent film, with Georges Méliès in the title role
  • Hamlet (1908 film), a French silent film
  • Hamlet (1912 film), a British silent film
  • Hamlet (1913 film), a British silent film
  • Hamlet (1917 film), an Italian silent film
  • Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance, a 1921 German silent film
  • Hamlet (1948 film), a British film, with Laurence Olivier in the title role
  • Hamlet (1959 film), an Australian television play
  • Hamlet (1961 film), a German film, with Maximilian Schell in the title role
  • Hamlet (1964 film), a Soviet film, with Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the title role
  • Richard Burton's Hamlet, a 1964 Broadway production with Richard Burton in the title role, filmed for theatrical release
  • Hamlet (1969 film), a British film, with Nicol Williamson in the title role
  • Hamlet (1990 film), an American/British/French film, with Mel Gibson in the title role
  • Hamlet (1996 film) or William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a 1996 British/American film with Kenneth Branagh in the title role
  • Hamlet (2000 film), an American film, with Ethan Hawke in the title role
  • Hamlet (2009 film), a BBC television film, with David Tennant in the title role
  • Hamlet (2018 film), a BBC television film, with Andrew Scott in the title role
  • Hamlet (2025 film) a British film, with Riz Ahmed in the title role

Music

  • Hamlet (band), a Spanish heavy metal band
  • Hamlet (album)
  • Hamlet (), an 1865 Italian opera by Franco Faccio
  • Hamlet (Thomas), an 1868 French opera by Ambroise Thomas
  • Hamlet, a 2006 German opera by Anno Schreier
  • Hamlet (Dean), a 2017 English opera by Brett Dean
  • Hamlet (Tchaikovsky), two compositions
  • Hamlet (Liszt), a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt

Other

  • Hamlet (video game)

Places

  • Hamlet (place), a generic name for a small settlement

In the United States

  • Hamlet, California
  • Hamlet, Illinois
  • Hamlet, Indiana
  • Hamlet, Nebraska
  • Hamlet, New York
  • Hamlet, North Carolina
  • Hamlet, Ohio
  • Hamlet, Oregon
  • Hamlet (Oregon), a form of local government
  • Hamlet, West Virginia

Elsewhere

  • Hamlet, Alberta, a community in Canada
  • The Hamlets, Liverpool, England
  • Hamlet (crater), a crater on Oberon, one of Uranus's moons

Other uses

  • Hamlet (name)
  • Hamlet (cigar), brand produced by Japan Tobacco
  • Hamlet (fish), a fish of the genus Hypoplectrus
  • HAMLET (protein complex)
  • FIM-43 Redeye, a surface-to-air missile system, known as "Hamlet" in the Danish service
  • The Hamlet, a novel by William Faulkner
  • Hamlet, a character in the comic strip Hägar the Horrible
  • "Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)", a song from the 1982 album Junkyard by The Birthday Party
  • Hamlet chicken processing plant fire, 1991, North Carolina, United States
  • Hamlet (band), a heavy metal band from Madrid, Spain

See also

  • Hamlett, a surname
  • Hamnet (disambiguation)
  • Haider (film), 2014 Indian drama film, an adaptation of the play