In the centuries since William Shakespeare put quill to paper and wrote “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” in 1602, or thereabout, we have met all sorts of Hamlets, seen all manner of versions of the play.

We have encountered Hamlet in such actors as Sarah Bernhardt and Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier and Mel Gibson, John Wilkes Booth and Richard Burton. Quite a crowd.

We have seen “Hamlet” on stages, in movies, in parks. Some of us (myself included) vividly remember the 1985 Wisdom Bridge Theater production directed by Bob Falls (soon to move on to lead the Goodman Theater) and starring a 26-year-old Aidan Quinn, who spray-painted the words “To Be / Not to Be” before turning to the audience and saying, “that is the question.”

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