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Teach Hamlet

Whether you're teaching English or Drama, access a range of dynamic high-quality resources on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  • Bring the text to life with engaging productions and e-learning resources.
  • Save time with ready-to-go resources for English or Drama.
  • Develop key skills and knowledge with teaching tools covering the play's characters, language, themes and more.

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Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet) in Hamlet | Royal Shakespeare Company © Manuel Harlan

 

Hamlet   |   Production   |   William Shakespeare

  • 7Productions
  • 11Video resources
  • 8Written resources

Discover video and written resources to help you teach Hamlet, including lesson activities, contextual guides, and exclusive insights to help you address the play's language, themes, characters and more.

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Production: Hamlet

Engage your students with Shakespeare's tragedy with this featured production captured live in Stratford-upon-Avon. This production starred Paapu Essiedu in the title role, making him the first Black actor to play Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Lesson Toolkits

Designed to save valuable prep time, and with versions available for both English and Drama, our lesson toolkits provide everything needed to explore the narrative, characters and key themes of Hamlet, complete with quizzes and extension questions.

Unlocked e-learning videos

These concise e-learning videos are designed to strengthen understanding of the text, with episodes covering core areas of learning, key quotations and knowledge-checking questions.

The Prince of Denmark: A Story Vaguely Inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet

In this comically dark retelling of the great tragedy, young Hamlet returns home from university to find his uncle's feet under the table at his family’s pub.

Hamlet Practical Workshop Guide

Deepen your students’ understanding of the play as a blueprint for performance with this practical workshop guide.

Study Guides

Give your students the ultimate introduction to the play’s plot, characters, themes, language and more with our accessible guides.

Being Shakespeare

In this one-man show performed by Simon Callow, writer Jonathan Bale weaves together extracts from Shakespeare’s canon in a celebration of the playwright’s life and work.

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