Fortinbras (play)

This article is about the Lee Blessing play. For other uses, see Fortinbras (disambiguation).

Fortinbras is a 1991 play by American playwright Lee Blessing. Set immediately following William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play recounts the events after Hamlet's death that go on throughout Elsinore. The play includes almost every character from Hamlet returning as a ghost.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Influence

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Banquet (2006) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014)

Novels	Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Ophelia's Revenge (2003) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)

Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991) Hamlet (2005)

Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973) The Lion King (1997)

Television	Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) Hamlet (1992) Sons of Anarchy (2008) Hamlet (2009)

Parody

Songs

"My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/Classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)

Story within a story

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)

Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)

Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007)

Television	"The Producer" (1966) Slings & Arrows (2003)

Art

Ophelia
Affe mit Schädel

Video game

Last Action Hero (1993)
Hamlet (2010)

Intertextuality

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