
"To be or not to be" becomes "To fuck or be fucked".
Richard Curtis's parody Skinhead Hamlet (1982), consists of about 600, mostly rude, words. Anton Chekhov's plays The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard include elements from Hamlet. He has also written other Hamlet-inspired drama, including Dogg's Hamlet and The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet.
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), tells the story of Hamlet from the perspective of two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.Gilbert himself took the role of Claudius in a 1904 production of his play. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891) is a parody on Hamlet. He rents Shakespearean actor John Barrymore's old apartment, and is soon haunted by the ghost of Barrymore himself. Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet (1991), tells the story of a TV actor from Los Angeles who gets talked into doing Hamlet for Shakespeare in the Park in New York.
Fortinbras is experiencing difficulty assuming the crown Horatio attempts to get Fortinbras to tell Hamlet's story other characters (Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, etc.) haunt Fortinbras as ghosts.
The comedy Fortinbras covers the beginnings of the Norwegian Prince Fortinbras's reign in Denmark immediately following the events of Hamlet. The Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), has been performed in versions where Hamlet is done in about 43 seconds. The following list of plays including references to Hamlet is ordered alphabetically. Hamlet is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1879, as of 2004. Numerous cultural references to Hamlet (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. 19th century statue by Ronald Gower in Stratford-upon-Avon Prince Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick.