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Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868 by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Paul Meurice of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Hamlet: Peter Verstegen Amsterdam: 2018 9789025370527, 9025370527 1079229341 Estonian Taani Prints Hamlet: A.F. Tombach-Kaljuvald Tartu: 1930 924373442 Finnish Hamlet: Paavo Cajanderin Charleston: 2014 9781502465009 German Hamlet: Norbert Greiner Tübingen: 2006 9783860575673 214348716 Haitian Creole Hamlèt (Prens Denmak) Nicole Titus ...
In 1869, George Russell French theorized that Hamlet ' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil (Lord Burghley)—Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. [28] French also speculated that the characters of Polonius's children, Ophelia and Laertes, represented two of Burghley's children, Anne and Robert Cecil. [29]
Hamlet survives at the end. The French composer Ambroise Thomas created an operatic Hamlet in 1868, using a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on an adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is rarely performed but contains a famous mad scene for Ophelia.
Chateaubriand – translator of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose; Joséphine Colomb – translator from Italian; Marie De Cotteblanche (c. 1520 – c. 1584) – French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French
The monologue, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose:
Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's (artist: Thomas de Leu, fl. 1560–1612). Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character, expounding ideas that are now described as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical.
View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.