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Hamlet

Tragedy by William Shakespeare

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Images from the collections

Images featuring Hamlet

3 images from works
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • Hamlet pointing to the ghost of his father and asking his mother the Queen if she can see it too; she replies not. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after J.K. Meadows.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.

Works from the collections

16 works

    • Books

    Hamlet and Oedipus / by Ernest Jones.

    Ernest Jones | Date: 1949
    • Books

    After Oedipus : Shakespeare in psychoanalysis / Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard.

    Julia Lupton | Date: 1993
    • Pictures

    Laertes with the mad Ophelia before Gertrude and Claudius. Etching after B. West.

    Benjamin West | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 2840414i
    • Pictures

    Hamlet with Ophelia. Coloured stipple engraving by W.N. Gardiner, 1798.

    William Nelson Gardiner | Date: March 1798 | Reference: 2840415i
    • Books

    Shakespeare's entrails : belief, scepticism and the interior of the body / David Hillman.

    Hillman, David (David A.) | Date: 2007
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Related topics

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Ophelia.
Mental Disorders
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Characters

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