Hamlet is Everywhere

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Over 5000 Hamlet Referances, documented line by line => http://www.hyperhamlet.unibas.ch/hh_action/

Wikipedia List => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/References_to_Hamlet


Some of my personal favorites: #31, 109, 123



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Number Type Title Img Source
1 Painting Edwin Austin Abbey, Hamlet (1897) Source
2 Painting Philip H. Calderon. The Young Lord Hamlet, 1868. Source
3 Painting Richard Dadd. The Closet Scene from "Hamlet" (1840). Source
4 Painting Henry Fuseli. Hamlet and the Ghost, 1789. Source
5 Painting Charles Hunt. The Play Scene in "Hamlet," 1868. Source
6 Painting Thomas Lawrence. John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, 1801   Source
7 Painting Daniel Maclise. The Play Scene in "Hamlet," 1842 Source
8 Painting Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Hamlet and Ophelia, 1858. Source
9 Painting Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Question, 1875. Source
10 Painting Eugène Delacroix. Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1835. Source
11 Painting Eugène Delacroix. Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1839. Source
12 Painting Hamlet and His Mother Source
13 Painting Hamlet and the Gravediggers Source
14 Painting Hamlet - The churchyard scene Source
15 Painting Hamlet and Ophelia 1883 Source
16 Painting John Hamilton Mortimer. Ophelia, 1775. Source
17 Painting HAMLET Source
18 Painting HAMLET: TRIPLE PORTRAIT as SCHOLAR, SLAYER & FOOL Source
19 Painting HAMLET & OPHELIA Source
20 Painting GRAVEDIGGER: HAMLET Source
21 Painting Benjamin West. Ophelia Source
22 Painting Robert Westall. Ophelia Source
23 Painting Francis Danby. Disappointed Love, 1821. Source
24 Painting Joseph Severn. Ophelia, c. 1831. Source
25 Painting Richard Redgrave. Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands, 1842. Source
26 Painting Arthur Hughes. Ophelia, 1852. Source
27 Painting John Everett Millais. Ophelia, 1852.   Source
28 Painting   Source
29 Painting Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The First Madness of Ophelia, 1868. Source
30 Painting James Sant. Ophelia. Source
31 Painting The Young Martyr Source
32 Painting George Frederic Watts. Ophelia, c. 1864. Source
33 Painting Jean Baptiste Bertrand. Ophelia. Source
34 Painting Henry Nelson O'Neil. Ophelia, 1874. Source
35 Painting Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930). Ophelia, 1880. Source
36 Painting Dominico Tojetti (1817-92). Ophelia, 1880. Source
37 Painting Madeleine Lemaire. Ophelia, 1880's. Source
38 Painting Maurice Greiffenhagen. Laertes and Ophelia, 1885. Source
39 Painting Marcus Stone. Ophelia, 1888. Source
40 Painting John W. Waterhouse. Ophelia, 1889. Source
41 Painting Henrietta Rae. Ophelia, 1890. Source
42 Painting "E. T." Ophelia. Source
43 Painting Ophelia Source
44 Painting Georg Falkenberg. Ophelia, c. 1898. Source
45 Painting Odilon Redon. Ophélie, 1905 Source
46 Painting John W. Waterhouse. Ophelia, 1910. Source
47 Painting Odilon Redon. Ophélie 1905-08. Source
48 Painting W. G. Simmonds. The Drowning of Ophelia. Source
49 Painting Ophelia Source
50 Painting Joseph Stella (1877-1946). Ophelia, c. 1926. Source
51 Painting Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais Source
52 Painting Eugène Delacroix. The Death of Ophelia, 1853. Source
53 Painting Ophelia Source
54 Painting Ophelia Source
55 Painting Ophelia in the Thistles Source
56 Painting Ophelia Source
57 Painting Gather Ye Rosebuds (Study) Source
58 Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead   Source
59 Passage Harry potter and the Half Blood prince "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." spoken by Albus Dumbledore  
60 Musical Hair Many Hamlet quotes and plot points  
61 Play A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche urges Stanley to "Possess your soul in patience" Source
62 Film The Lion King Plot  
63 Film Strange Brew Plot  
64 Film Renaissance Man Plot  
65 Film Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement Chamber maids: Rosencratz and Guildenstern  
66 Film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle "Harold and Kumar are neighbors of "Rosenberg and Goldstein", a Jewish mockery of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Also, Harold's love interest Maria visits the "Ophelia" movie theater." Source
67 Film The Big Lebowski "Goodnight Sweet Prince" spoken at funeral  
68 Film Robocop "Goodnight sweet prince" said by gang member after shooting  
69 Book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne There are two black pages following th death of Yorick
  
70 Film Interview With the Vampire Claudia, the child-vampire, quotes "Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils sing thee to thy rest."  
71 Book "The vile village" by lemony snicket "The Ophelia Bank"  
72 Film The Banquet Plot  
73 Film A Nightmare on Elm Street Dream. "student recite dialogue from Hamlet,'I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.'"  
74 Film Pan's labyrinth main character named Ofelia whose father has died.  
75 Trailer Passhendale "plot of land not big enough to bury the dead"  
76 Film True Romance the phrase, "something is rotten in Denmark" is used more than once. Also the protagonist is haunted by the 'King'  
77 Poem Horatio's Philosophy   Source
78 Rap Hamlet as Told on the Street by Shel Silverstein   Source
79 Play Mom, Shakespeare and Me
Short Five act play by Clare Higgins Source
80 Poem Ophelia in the Garden   Source
81 Short Story The Witness by Ronald Morris Source
82 Play A Night in Elsinore Parodie of the play Source
83 Symphonic Poems Hamlet by Franz Liszt   Source
84 Painting Yorik the Nobleman Source
85 Painting Hamlet before the Body of Polonius Source
86 Painting Hamlet and Gertrude with the Ghost Source
87 Song Ophelia by Family Cat Source
88 Painting Hamlet Source
89 Painting Scene from Hamlet Source
90 Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be". Source
91 Film The Addams Family Wednesday and Pugsley perform a scene from Hamlet for a school play  
92 Film Clueless Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) uses her familiarity with Mel Gibson (who once played Hamlet on film) to prove to her stepbrother's then-girlfriend that Polonius was indeed the character in Hamlet who says "To thine own self be true."  
93 Song Desolation Row- Bob Dylan "Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid"
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94 Film The Departed Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) reminds Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) that the "readiness is all" before a sting operation.  
95 Film Billy Madison competing in an academic decathlon. For one section, they recite lines from Hamlet's soliloquy beginning with "To be or not to be, that is the question?".  
96 Song The King Must Die - Elton John Lyrics Source
97 Song M*A*S*H Theme To be or not to be Source
98 Book Ulysses- james Joyce a chapter "Scylla and Charybdis" in which the hero explains a convoluted theory about Hamlet  
99 Cartoon Bugs Bunny cartoon, "A witch's tangled hare," William Shakespeare and Witch Hazel argue over whether she had given him the correct apartment number (2B) when he came calling on her years ago. The cartoon closes with Bugs Bunny addressing the audience: "2B or not 2B? That is the question."  
100 Song Cruel to be kind- nick Lowe title is from hamlet, but the song itself seems to refer a lot to ophelia
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101 Film Fanny and Alexander children's father is rehearsing the part of the Ghost for a production of the play when he dies, and then appears to Alexander later in the film as an actual ghost  
102 Film The Empire Strikes Back Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) tries to reassemble the droid C-3PO's body while imprisoned in Cloud City. At one point, Chewbacca holds C-3PO's head in much the same way that Hamlet is traditionally depicted as holding Yorick's skull. This reference was intentional on the part of the director. Source
103 Film North By Northwest Title paraphrases Hamlet (Act II, Scene II), Hamlet is quoted as saying: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."  
104 Film Green Eggs and Hamlet retells the story of Hamlet entirely in rhyming couplets  
105 TV Futurama Bender's death is followed by the line "Goodnight, sweet prince."  
106 TV Star Trek entitled "The Conscience of the King" features a production of Hamlet. Some aspects of the episode (e.g., Kirk's hesitation to confront a murderer until he is sure of his guilt) echo themes in the play.  
107 TV Smallville Clark Kent is visited by the "Ghost" of his father, who demands that Clark avenge his death. Clark struggles with the decision of how to act on his "vision."  
108 TV Stargate Atlantis Episodes titled "This Mortal Coil". The following episode is titled "Be All My Sins Remember'd". Both are from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy  
109 TV The Simpsons a shortened version of Hamlet in the episode "Tales from the Public Domain". After this, Homer claims that Hamlet was made into the film Ghostbusters.  
110 TV The Simpsons after Selma Bouvier breaks up with Principal Skinner, she says "Goodnight sweet principal", as a reference to "Goodnight sweet Prince".  
111 Film Last Action Hero starts with Arnold Schwarzenegger starring in the advert of a (fictional) action movie that is an adaptation of Hamlet.  
112 TV Fraiser an episode entitled Roz's Krantz And Gouldenstein Are Dead.  
113 Book On Strangeness By Margaret Bridges "Alludes to hamlet and the idea that even in the sleep of death man might be plagued by nightmares" Source
114 TV Futurama Slurm episode shows Leela and she says "Something is rotten on the planet Wormulon."  
115 TV The Three Stooges short includes a mule named Yorick. When the Stooges mistakenly believe that they blew up the mule with a stick of dynamite, Moe says "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well!"  
116 TV Animaniacs Yakko recites "Alas, poor Yorick!..." while Wakko gets up to antics in the background and Dot translates: "Whoa, check out Skullhead! He was funny. He gave me piggy-back rides."  
117 Cartoon The Book of Heroic Failures "Alas, poor Hamlet... I knew him well..." Source
118 Journalism Yorick: Uncovering the Bones Of a Grandmother's Past Title Source
119 Book The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower - Stephan King   Source
120 Video Game Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain "Alas, poor Nupraptor, I knew him well" Source
121 Book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows "But you're dead", said Harry. "Oh, yes", said Dumbledore matter of factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't it? Source
122 Song Freakum Dress - Beyonce "To be or not to be" Source
123 Ad Hamlet Tankini Why name a maternity swimsuit after Shakespeare's Dane? Because to Bikini or Not to Bikini is today's question for Hot Mamas to be – and with this suit by Prego, you can skirt the issue. Source
124 Book Atonement - Ian McEwan It was fortunate for her that he too had neither read nor seen the play, having studied chemistry. But he was able to say musingly, "To be or not to be." "That is the question", she agreed. "And I like your shoes." Source
125 Preface Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679 "Out, out, thou strumpet fortune; all you Gods" Source