Skinhead Hamlet

1981 parody of Hamlet written by Richard Curtis

The Skinhead Hamlet is a short 1981^[1] parody of the play Hamlet by Richard Curtis, a co-author of Blackadder.

According to the editor's note, the play is intended "to achieve something like the effect of the New English Bible".

References

^ Munro, Lucy (2011). "Shakespeare and Drama". In Burnett, Mark Thornton; Streete, Adrian; Wray, Ramona (eds.). The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780748649341. Retrieved 14 September 2014.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) The Banquet (2006) Doubt (2009) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014) Hemanta (2016) Ophelia (2018) The Lion King (2019)
Novels	Hamlet Had an Uncle (1940) Too, Too Solid Flesh (1989) Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)
Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991)
Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973)
Television	Hamlet (Australian TV, 1959) Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC, 1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (BBC, 1980) Hamlet (BBC 2, animated, 1992) Hamlet (BBC 2, 2009)

Parodies

Songs

Opera/classical

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1973) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Last Action Hero (1993) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) War (2002) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)
Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)
Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007) Hamnet (2020)
Television	"The Producer" (1966) "The Conscience of the King" (1966) "Born to Be King" (1983) "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" (2001) Slings & Arrows (2003)
Video games	Last Action Hero (1993) Hamlet (2010) Elsinore (2019)
Books	Asterix and the Great Crossing The Seagull Sharpe's Havoc