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Claudius turns up in 28 works open to everyone here. The average one runs about 2,100 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.
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Hamlet - Shakespeare+1
by Gehayi
Hamlet in space, starring sensible and heroic Ophelia, genderswapped Claudius, clones Rosencrantz and Guilderstern and alien Fortinbras. (Alas, there are no sharks in space riding motorcycles, nor is there a time machine.)
Hamlet (1990)+1
by DevilsCourt, that_one_gay_potato, Zombie_Queen (The_trash_cannot)
Hamlet AU where King Hamlet survives his initial poisoning, and Claudius's plot is found out.
Hamlet (2009)
by purplefringe
There's a hole in my neighbourhood down which of late I cannot help but fall
Hamlet - All Media Types+1
by gods mistake (thelocalace)
Horatio’s eyes looked down into his, shining as they spilled tears onto his cheeks. Hamlet was fading quickly, but he felt his dearest, most beloved friend place a hand to his cheek. “Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” A kiss was placed on his forehead. Hamlet closed his eyes and dreamed. After dying and being given a second chance, Hamlet vows to do better this time. He will make it kind.
Hamlet - All Media Types+1
by ViScribbler
The few couriers left at the scene unharmed couldn’t decide on a consistent explanation for the deaths- only that it involved trickery, poison, an ill-fated fencing match and an insane prince. All of them, however, could tell him who it was who stuck the blow that killed the king: the strange man he’d found holding the prince’s body. Horatio. That was his name. Fortinbras, newly burdened with the title of King of Denmark, visits a prisoner in hopes of getting the full story of what really happened the day he arrived to find the royal family murdered.
Hamlet - All Media Types+1
by orphan_account
He kind of wanted to die. His dad was dead, his girlfriend broke up with him two weeks after his dad died, and his mother had married his father’s brother two months after his dad died.Scratch that. He really wanted to die.
Hamlet - Shakespeare+1
by Gehayi
"I shall never be able to explain to my nephew that I killed my brother because I loved him."
Hamlet - Shakespeare
by havisham
It's a beautiful day in Elsinore and you are a horrible swan-king.
Hamlet - Shakespeare+4
Logan Lucky (2017)+1
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
by TheHazardsofLove13
Hamlet was barely clinging to life, but he still feared to die. And Horatio knew that he could not let him. He would let himself and his whole world burn before he let Hamlet die. Horatio bit into his wrist and let his blood fall into Hamlet’s mouth. “Drink from me, sweet prince.”
Hamlet - All Media Types+1
Hamlet - Shakespeare+1
by onewhodiedyoung
What Horatio wants to do is shield Hamlet’s eyes from a world gone terrible and tell him to be silly again, have him listen and have him next look at Denmark the white of their youth, washed clean of stains like something waiting to be coloured with good things, better things, anything but this. What he does is stare at the dirtied cuff of Hamlet’s sleeve and mourn how he is allowed dirt now – how they’ll allow the prince gone mad anything, now that he’s been denied everything that matters.
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
by archea2
“Badiou,” Dr. Polonius dribbles on, undeterred. “Bah!” Then he lets a sly side eye follow Horatio’s gaze up the Board of Notice, and chuckles.“No wonder you’re distracted. Bit ghost-like, eh? Metaphysics 101: King, Hamlet. Half of the Common Room did a double take. It’s the son, actually.”
Hamlet - All Media Types+1
by Eatgreass
Gertrude sees Ophelia jump into the pond, her pockets laden with rocks. And Gertrude jumps in as well, pulling the dying girl to the banks, changing everything.
Hamlet - Shakespeare
by geode
Horatio was only supposed to be passing through.(it's... Hamlet in space)
Hamlet - Shakespeare
by whatevergirlie
1938, Chicago. The Mayor is dead and a ghost is haunting the halls of the Elsinores' house. The daughter of the Vice Mayor, Ophelia Polonius, has hired Horatio Witten, a private investigator and her fiance's best friend from college, to investigate who or what is terrorizing her fiance Hamlet. But the problem is, ghosts don't exist. Unless...