Key Characters of Hamlet

Hamlet - Prince of Denmark
Claudius - King of Denmark
Gertrude - Queen of Denmark
The Ghost
Polonius - Claudius' Chief Counsellor
Laertes - son of Polonius
Ophelia - daughter of Polonius
Horatio - friend of Hamlet, from the University of Wittenberg
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - childhood friends of Hamlet
Fortinbras - Norwegian Crown Prince

The play is set in Elsinore (a.k.a. Helsingor in modern parlance) in Kronburg Castle.

Renditions of Hamlet

Hamlet (1996) of Sir Kenneth Branagh (born 1960 in Northern Ireland) who also starred in Henry V (1989), Othello (1995).