'Hamlet' resources

This post summarises useful resources for our pupils studying Hamlet as their single text in the Leaving Certificate. [updated May 2017]

1. The whole text of the play: put it on your own computer...
2. A series of 15 video/audio analyses of moments, using the ShowMe app for iPad.
3. The whole text of Hamlet as a Wordle (click on the image for a bigger view). \
4. A recording of the 1993 BBC radio version with Kenneth Branagh.
5. SCC English revision podcasts are here, on 'The first soliloquy','The first scene', and two ones which gather the 10 Characters series (below).
6. 10 Characters in Hamlet: our 5-minute podcasts on 'lesser' characters: Fortinbras, Horatio, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, Ophelia, The First Player, Osric, The First Gravedigger.
7. An excellent resource: the BBC Archive Hamlet.
8. Miriam Poulton's review of the excellent National Theatre Live production, starring Rory Kinnear.
9. Radio documentary by 'This American Life' called 'Act V' on a prison production of the play.
10. Links to six press reviews of the Kinnear Hamlet.
11. Shakespeare Searched: a 'Google for Shakespeare' - terrific resource for looking up quotations, self-testing and so on.
12. The Ten Best Hamlets.
13. The Hamlet Weblog.
14. Alan Stanford's Hamlet masterclass, on RTE Radio (4 programmes in January 2011).
15. A quotation auto-test (and below; see the first slides for instructions)