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Russell Enoch (Ghost) and Mark Rylance (Hamlet) in a 1988 RSC tour at Wimbledon theatre in London. All photographs: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
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Rory Edwards (Hamlet) in a production adapted and directed by Julia Bardsley at the Young Vic, in 1994
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Gina Bellman (Ophelia) and Stephen Dillane (Hamlet) in the Peter Hall Company’s version of the play at the Gielgud theatre in 1994, directed by Hall
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Alan Cumming as Hamlet in a production by English Touring Theatre at Donmar Warehouse, directed by Sam Mendes, in 1993
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Frances Tomelty (Gertrude) and Michael Maloney (Hamlet) in Yukio Ninagawa’s production at the Barbican in 2004
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Alan Rickman, directed by Robert Sturua at Riverside Studios, London, in 1992
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Damian Lewis (Hamlet) and Pamela Miles (Gertrude) at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London, directed by Tim Piggott-Smith in 1994
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John Simm (Hamlet) and John Nettles (Claudius) at the Sheffield Crucible in 2010
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Vaneshran Arumugam (Hamlet), Nicholas Pauling (Guildenstern) and Marcel Meyer (Rosencrantz ) at the Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2006, directed by Janet Suzman, as part of the RSC’s Complete Works Festival
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Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Temi Wilkey (Gravedigger’s Assistant) and Ewart James Walters (Gravedigger) in an RSC production designed by Paul Wills, at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2016
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Neal Foster (Hamlet) and Daniele Lydon (Ophelia) in a production directed by Richard Dreyfuss at the Old Rep theatre, Birmingham, in 1994
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Timothy Walker (Hamlet) and Natasha Parry (Gertrude) at the Lyric, London, in a Cheek by Jowl production in 1990
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Hikari Mitsushima (Ophelia) and Tatsuya Fujiwara (Hamlet) in a production by the Ninagawa Company, at the Barbican in 2015
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Patrick Stewart (Claudius) and David Tennant (Hamlet) in Gregory Doran’s 2008 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Daniel Webb (Hamlet) and Veronica Smart (Ophelia) in a 1989 version of the play directed by Yuri Lyubimov at Leicester Haymarket theatre
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Stephen Noonan (left) as Hamlet at Southampton’s Nuffield theatre in 2003. Design by Robin Don
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Lars Eidinger (Hamlet) at the Barbican in 2011, in Thomas Ostermeier’s Berlin Schaubuhne production
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Michelle Terry (Hamlet) and Bettrys Jones (Laertes) at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2018
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Jude Law as Hamlet in the Donmar’s West End season in 2009, directed by Michael Grandage
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Kenneth Branagh in an RSC production at the Barbican in 1992, directed by Adrian Noble
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Daniel Day-Lewis as Hamlet at the National Theatre in 1989, directed by Richard Eyre
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David Rubin (centre, Claudius) and Dharmesh Patel (kneeling, Hamlet) in an RSC production in 2010 directed by Tarrell Alvin McCraney. It was created as part of a Young People’s Shakespeare project, which toured schools
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Rory Kinnear as Hamlet at the National Theatre in 2010, in a production directed by Nicholas Hytner, with design by Vicki Mortimer
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Joshua McGuire (Hamlet) and Jade Anouka (Ophelia) in a production by Dominic Dromgoole at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2011
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Sara Kestelman (Gertrude), Simon Russell Beale (Hamlet) and Sylvester Morand (Hamlet’s Father/Ghost) at the Lyttelton, National Theatre, in 2000
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Pippa Nixon (Ophelia) and Jonathan Slinger (Hamlet) in a 2013 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by David Farr, with set design by Jon Bausor
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John Dougall (Horatio), Alan David (First Gravedigger), Samuel West (Hamlet) and Conor Moloney (Second Gravedigger) in Steven Pimlott’s production at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford, in 2001
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Alex Jennings as Hamlet in Matthew Warchus’s production at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford, 1997
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Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet) and Francesca Annis (Gertrude) at London’s Hackney Empire in 2005
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Christopher Eccleston at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2002
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Ben Whishaw (Hamlet) and Imogen Stubbs (Gertrude) at the Old Vic in 2004, in a production directed by Trevor Nunn
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