And at Stratford-upon-Avon, The Orphan of Zhao - "the Chinese Hamlet" - becomes the first Chinese play ever produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Aren't the fictional characters of great writing-- Hamlet, Raskolnikov, Emma Bovary--at least as compelling as real people?
Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.
His many stage plays include The Real Thing, Arcadia and the Hamlet-inspired Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
The son, turned instant vegetarian, holds him in Hamlet-like loathing.
In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.
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Alexander Haddad, a 66-year-old resident of the mountain hamlet of Maalula, is concerned about the fate of his ancient Christian community, but he takes the long view.
Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist - who presumably didn't have an interest in his stockbroker neighbours - resided in the hamlet of Springs until he died there in a car crash.
But if you venture just a few valleys over to the Haute-Savoie hamlet of La Clusaz, your money is going to stretch much farther.
Globe to Globe Hamlet, the ambitious two-year tour that aims to visit 205 nations and territories across seven continents was granted UNESCO patronage, with the support of the UKNC in December 2014.
He was twice recognized as best village headman of his province and even honored by royal visits to observe his efforts to develop his hamlet and keep it drug-free.
It stands to reason that a 90-minute "Hamlet" can't be poetic other than in passing.
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Both start in Cairns and terminate in Kuranda, a hippy hamlet nestled between a World Heritage-listed rainforest and the Barron Falls, which roars to life in the summer monsoon season.
In the words of Budd Schulberg, who had seen them all from Jack Dempsey on, Jones was "Hamlet with a mouthpiece" - to be or not to be one of the greatest?
But after I switched to a two-car train in the hamlet of Plattling, muddy flatlands gave way to woodsy white hills, factory chimneys to clock towers.
Six miles east of Lanercost, I reach the tranquil bend of the River Irthing, where a new bridge carries the long-distance footpath to the hamlet of Willowford.
You'll recall from high school or college how Shakespeare frequently pushes the limits of comedy and tragedy, splicing farce into moments of calamity (the fool in King Lear, the clowns in Hamlet) and pulling back suddenly from near-fatal disaster in comedies (The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale).
National Theatre director Sir Nicholas Hytner said that the NT was planning a bigger screening programme over the next year - including his own production of Hamlet.
Everyone in this hamlet, it seemed, had just found a sixteen- or twenty-three-cent stamp in a dusty drawer, and had chosen today to supplement it up to viability using car-seat nickels and pennies.
To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).
In 2011, hundreds of New York public-school students saw adapted versions of "Hamlet" and "The Comedy of Errors" at the Park Avenue Armory.
The dwellers around him in the hamlet had also finished their dinners, and the smoke from cow-dung fires hung over the darkening roofs, a harsh spicy smell, like rough tobacco.
But residents said the advent of big-box stores and malls crippled local businesses in the hamlet, and the loss of factory jobs on Long Island contributed to its decline since then.
All in all, Brook has succeeded in producing a fresh version of Hamlet that will be the standard by which all future productions are judged - no mean achievement for the enfant terrible of British theatre.
For the past five years, the Australian-based company has been planning to buy 17 homes in the nearby hamlet of Drakelands, but so far no purchases have been completed.
The high-sided trailer was left at the Dublin Road between Castlewellan and the nearby hamlet of Kilcoo.
Amazon and Barnes and Noble now make up a national used book market, Google posts public domain works such as Hamlet online for free, and Apple, Sony and Amazon are fighting for the new e-reader market.
The coastal village of Bamburgh is an "unspoilt hamlet dwarfed by the romantic profile of an intimidating castle" and Lindisfarne is a magical, two-mile square island.
Based in the hamlet of Martins Dale in rural Lincolnshire, Ian Frost and Paul Rowland ran a number of web-based services, including Athenanews.com which charged subscribers to access news groups or discussion forums.
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In the hamlet of Hajji Musa Kala, villager Mohammad Idris is sending to one of these mosque schools his eight-year-old son and his six-year-old daughter.
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