Hamlet
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 9 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Hamlet trivia questions
Who wrote Hamlet?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Bonus fact: Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.
What is the name of Hamlet's mother?
Answer: Gertrude
Bonus fact: Gertrude is queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother.
William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Hamlet and what tragedy about star-crossed lovers?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Bonus fact: Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies, histories, and poetry.
Which Stoppard play reimagines two minor Hamlet characters?
Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Bonus fact: The play became his breakthrough work.
Hamlet is prince of which country in Shakespeare’s play?
Answer: Denmark
Bonus fact: Much of Hamlet takes place at Elsinore Castle.
Hamlet was first published in what year?
Answer: 1603
Bonus fact: The 1603 first quarto differs substantially from the longer 1604 second quarto and the 1623 First Folio text.
The second quarto of Hamlet, one of the main early texts used by modern editors, was published in what year?
Answer: 1604
Bonus fact: The First Quarto appeared in 1603, while the First Folio version followed in 1623.
The Northman draws on the legend that inspired which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet
Bonus fact: The Amleth legend is an ancestor of Hamlet's story.
Which Shakespeare character gives the famous 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy?
Answer: Hamlet
Bonus fact: It is one of the best-known speeches in English drama.