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HAMLET
byWilliam Shakespeare
Name: William Shakespeare
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Dates: 23rd April 1564 – 23rd April 1616
Place of birth: Stratford – upon - Avon
Family: His father made gloves and sold them. His mother came from a rich family. Married with Anne Hathaway (16 y.o.) and had three children: a daughter, Susana, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamlet: Aldea
Professions: Actor, playwright
Work when he went to London: One of the owners of a theatrical company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Number of plays that wrote: 38 plays
Top 5:
The Globe Theatre
1 Where are you going to stay: We are going to stay at the Mercure Stratford upon Avon
Shakespeare Hotel
Housed in a half-timbered building, this hotel is a 5-minute walk from Shakespeare's Birthplace, 10 from Stratford Butterfly Farm and 1 mile from Stratford Train Station. Over-Avon. 76€ for one night


2 What historical places you are going to visit: We are going to visit the Shakespeare’s Birthplace and in Anne Hathaway Cottage and Garden, the family home of Anne Hathaway, William Shakespeare’s wife-to-be.


3 Where you are going to visit: We are going to visit The Swan Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre where you can catch many of the Bard’s famous works and the more intimate Swan Theatre that regularly stages plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and later writers

4 Where you are going to eat: We are going to eat at the Woodsman Restaurant, Our Grade 11 listed building was used as an Inn between 1655 to 1661 and played host to The Royal Shakespeare Club's annual dinner as early as 1824.

5 What other things you are going to do
Morning
Go for breakfast at Hathaway Tea Rooms


Afternoon
Row down the River Avon

Hamlet

Characters
- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
- Claudius: King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle
- Gertrude: Queen, Hamlet’s mother
- Polonius: Kings councillor
- Ophelia: Polonius’s daughter
- Laertes: Polonius’s son
- Horatio: Hamlet’s friend
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern courtiers and student friends of hamlet
- The ghost of Hamlet’s father
Elsinore Castle
Is real but it changes his name, his real name is Kronborg castle

EXTRA: GHOST IN BOOKS OR FILMS
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