Adaptations and Spinoffs

(For major stage and screen productions based on Shakespeare's text itself, see the page On Stage and Screen.)

Prose and Poetry

Richard Brautigan: The Castle of the Cormorants and The Rape of Ophelia (poems, 1970)
Georg Britting: Lebenslauf eines dicken Mannes, der Hamlet hiess (1932)
Carole Corbeil: In the Wings (1997)
Terry Deary: Twisted Tales – Shakespeare Stories as you've never read them before ..., chapter "Hamlet – The topped ten" (1998/ 2004)
Alfred Döblin: Hamlet oder Die langer Nacht nimmt ein Ende (1956)
Kevin Thomas Duffy, Marvin E. Frankel, Stephen Gillers, Norman L. Greene, Daniel J. Kornstein, and Jeanne A. Roberts: The Elsinore Appeal – People v. Hamlet (1996)
R.S. Gwynn: Horatio's Philosphy (in: "No Word of Farewell – Selected Poems 1970-2000," 2001)
Graham Holderness: The Prince of Denmark (2002)
Michael Innes: Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
Elias Olan James: Thieves of Mercy (1934)
Charles and Mary Lamb: Tales From Shakespeare – Hamlet (1807)
Percy MacKaye: The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark, or What We Will (1950)
Edith Nesbitt: Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare – Hamlet
Hunter Steele: Lord Hamlet's Castle (1987)
John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
John Wain: Feng (1975)

On Stage

Anonymous: The Gravemakers (1672)
Paul Baker: Hamlet ESP (1970)
John Wilson Bengough, a/k/a Barnaby Rudge: Hecuba; or Hamlet's Father's Deceased Wife's Sister (libretto for a proposed comic opera in two acts with music by G. Barton Brown, 1885)
John Wilson Bengough, a/k/a Barnaby Rudge: Puffe & Co., or Hamlet, Prince of Dry Goods (libretto for a proposed comic opera with music by Clarence Lucas, ca. 1890)
Pierre Berton: Shakespeare Revises a Play (1962)
Jean Betts: Ophelia Thinks Harder (1994)
Herbert Blau: Elsinore – An Analytic Scenario (1981)
Lee Blessing: Fortinbras (Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, USA, 1992)
Ona Winants Borland: The Lamentable Tragedy of Omelet and Oatmealis– in song and verse (Chicago Dramatic, Chicago, IL, USA, 1916)
Margaret Clarke (Helen M. Buss): Gertrude and Ophelia (1993)
Giuseppe (Pino) Costalunga: Amleto, Farsa in due atti (farce in two acts, commedia dell'arte, 2000-01)
Richard Curtis: The Skinhead Hamlet (in: Simon Brett (ed.): "The Faber Book of Parodies," 1984)
Ashley Dukes: Return to Danes Hill – A tragic comedy in three acts (1958)
Ken Gass: Claudius (1995)
William Gilbert: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – A tragic episode in three tableaux (1891)
Robert Gurik: Hamlet, prince du Québec/ Hamlet, Prince of Quebec (1967)
Gerhart Hauptmann: Hamlet in Wittenberg (1935)
Chris Humphries: Glimpses of the Moon (1997)
Charles Marowitz: The Marowitz Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Measure for Measure (80 minute-adaptation, 1978)
Heiner Müller: Hamletmaschine (1978)
Neil Munro: Hamlet's Room: A Shakespearean Accommodation (1991)
Arthur Murphy: Hamlet, with Alterations (privately circulated, 1772)
Richard Nathan: A Night in Elsinore (2000)
Richard Nathan: Ophelia's Ghost (2005)
Michael O'Brien: Mad Boy Chronicle (1995)
Joseph Papp: William Shakespeare's Naked Hamlet (1967)
Leonard Peterson: The Great Hunger (1958)
John Poole: Hamlet Travestie in Three Acts. With Annotations by Dr. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, Esq. and other Commentators (1810)
Elmer Rice: Cue For Passion (1958)
Paul Rudnick: I Hate Hamlet ( 1991)
Gerhard Rühm: Ophelia und die Wörter (1972)
Jean Sarment: Le Mariage de Hamlet (1923)
Kim Selody: Lovers and Liars (1992)
Lister Shedden Sinclair: Museum of Man (1954)
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – play and movie (play, 1967; movie, 1990)
Tom Stoppard: The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1978)
Tom Stoppard: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (1979)
John Cargill Thompson: Hamlet II – Prince of Jutland (monologue, 1984)
Judith Thompson: Lion in the Streets (1992)

On Screen

Kenneth Branagh: A Midwinter's Tale/ In the Bleak Midwinter (1996)
Claude Chabrol: Ophélia (1963)
Danny DeVito/ Penny Marshall: Renaissance Man (1994)
Gilligan's Island: The Producer (Season 3, Episode 3, 1966)
Helmut Käutner: Der Rest ist Schweigen (The Rest is Silence) (1959)
Akira Kurosawa: Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1960)
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be, or Not To Be (1942)
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Hamlet (Season 4, Episode 4, 1974)
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas: Strange Brew (1983)
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – play and movie (play, 1967; movie, 1990)

In Music

Gaetano Andreozzi: Amleto (opera, libretto by Giuseppe Maria, 1792)
Samuel Arnold: Hamlet (four songs performed at Drury Lane, 1799)
Carlo Baliani: Ambleto (pasticcio, 1719)
Pascal Bentoiu: Hamlet (opera, op. 18, 1974)
Boris Blacher: Hamlet (ballet)
Johannes Brahms: Lied von Shakespeare (songs, op. 17)
Johannes Brahms: Ophelia-Lieder (songs, WoO posth. 22, 1873)
Antonio Buzolla: Amleto (opera, libretto by Giovanni Peruzzini, 1848)
Giuseppe Carcani: Ambleto (opera, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1742)
Luigi Caruso: Amleto (opera, 1789)
Ernest Chausson: Chansons de Shakespeare (songs, op. 28, 1890-97)
Francesco Clerico: Amleto (ballet, 1788)
Ian Dearden (music) and Kim Bradstrup (choreography); Antic (ballet, 1993)
Hans Ulrich Engelmann: Ophelia (multi media theatre for one actor, op. 36, 1969)
Franco Faccio: Amleto (opera, libretto by Arrigo Boito, 1865)
Ravaz Gabichvadze: Hamlet (ballet, 1971)
Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg: Amleto (ballet, 1822)
Francesco Gasparini: Ambleto (opera, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1705)
Philip Glass: Hamlet (ballet, 2000)
Alfredo Grandi: Amleto (musical comedy, 1898)
Jean Louis Aristide Hignard: Hamlet (opera, 1888)
Rudolf Kelterborn: Ophelia (opera for five voices, 1982-83)
Edward Keurvels: Hamlet (opera, 1891)
William Linley: Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs vol. II (1815-16)
Franz Liszt: Hamlet (symphonic poem No. 10, 1858)
Galt MacDermot (music), James Rado and Gerome Ragni (lyrics): What a Piece of Work is a Man (song from the musical "Hair," 1967)
Saverio Mercadante: Amleto (opera, 1822)
Sergei Prokofiev: Hamlet (incidental music, op. 77, 1937-38)
Roger Quilter: Four Shakespeare Songs (op. 30, 1933)
Humphrey Searle: Hamlet (opera in three acts, libretto by the composer, 1968)
Alexandre Stadtfeld: Hamlet (opera, 1857)
Richard Strauss: Lied der Ophelia (songs, op. 67, 1918)
Arthur Sullivan (Gilbert and Sullivan): Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (musical, 1874)
Sandor Szokolay: Hamlet (opera, 1968)
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (symphonic poem, op. 67, 1888)
Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet (opera in five acts, libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, 1868)
Michael Tippett and John Neumeier: Hamlet (ballet, 1997)
Mario Zafred: Amleto (opera, libretto by Lilyan and Mario Zafred, 1961)