Celebrating Shakespeare's 450th anniversary, one Hamlet at the time.

The Guardian published a collection of 45 different Hamlets for Shakespeare's 450th anniversary. 45 different adaptations of the marvelous tragedy. It has been many years since the play was first published and with this very interesting gallery we can see the huge influence that it has made on art and theater through the years.

We can see different artists (Such as Jude Law, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, Mel Gibson, and Benedict Cumberbatch) interpreting the prince of Denmark. 

The gallery provides a sort of timeline of Hamlet and its influence on theater and film. The different pictures represent different types of ways that actors have found to bring Hamlet's madness to life. Different adaptations and points of view, different representations and, most probably, the same reactions; being amazed by Shakespeare's piece of art.

I wanted to share this with you because I think I will help us see Shakespeare in a different way. As a big influence, as an "always alive" play.

I hope you can enjoy the gallery and see with your own eyes how many different adaptations with different actors there are, and how Shakespeare and Hamlet are still alive.

The Gallery

Sources:

The Guardian News and Media, 2014.