William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Teatro William Shakespeare

Publisher Marketing: La tragedia de Hamlet, Principe de Dinamarca (titulo original en ingles: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark), o simplemente Hamlet es una tragedia del dramaturgo ingles William Shakespeare. Su autor probablemente baso Hamlet en dos fuentes: la leyenda de Amleth y una perdida obra isabelina conocida hoy como Ur-Hamlet o Hamlet original (hecho que se deduce de otros textos). El ano concreto en que fue escrita sigue aun en disputa, cuestion que se complica porque se han conservado a la epoca actual tres versiones tempranas de la obra, conocidas como First Quarto (Q1), Second Quarto (Q2) y el First Folio (F1); cada cual unica, puesto que poseen lineas -e incluso escenas- diferentes o ausentes entre ellas. El consenso general dice que probablemente se hayan compuesto entre 1599 y 1601. Hamlet es la pieza mas larga de Shakespeare y una de las tragedias mas potentes e influyentes de la literatura inglesa." Contributor Bio:  Shakespeare, William Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It. Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain s Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London. Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare s works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are performed more often than any other playwright s, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.