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Julius Caesar
1599 – Shakepeare writes Julius Caesar.
This was the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe Theatre, which was built in the same year.
24 – The number of years to elapse between the writing of Julius Caesar, and its publication.
44BC – The year in which the play is set.
3 – The Act in which Julius Caesar is assassinated, and the Act in which Caesar utters the famous line ‘et tu, Brute?’ (You to Brutus).
1599 – Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss traveller in London, remarks upon having seen a production of a Shakespeare play at a Bankside theatre in his diary entry of 21 September. Owing to Platter’s description, it is thought that this was Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Hamlet
1601 – The year attributed to the writing of Hamlet. Other dates range between 1599-1602.
1603 – First publication of Hamlet.
The first actor to play the role of Hamlet was Richard Burbage, the lead actor of Shakespeare’s troop The King’s Men.
1574-1585 – The period in which it is believed that Kronborg Castle was built. This was the inspiration for Elsinore Castle, the fortified residence of the play’s central character Hamlet.
Shakespeare’s inspiration for Hamlet is thought to come from works such as Third Book of Gesta Danorum, or Historia Danica, by Saxo Grammaticus, a story which was later retold by Francois de Belleforest in the Histories Tragiques, and possibly a play by Thomas Kid called Ur-Hamlet.
60 – So popular a play is Hamlet, it is estimated that this is the number of seconds to elapse between separate performances of the play across the globe. That equates to some 60 productions every hour – albeit in a variety of formats.
It is believed that Shakespeare actually appeared in Hamlet at The Globe as the ghost.
2009 – The year that a real skull was used in the gravedigger scene by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) production of Hamlet. The skull belonged to composer André Tchaikowsky, who bequeathed it to the company after him death in 1982.