Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Claudius and Polonius ... Hamlet and Ophelia to find out why Hamlet's gone 'mad'. Director Gregory Doran and David Tennant give their interpretation of this ...

Pictured above is Hamlet talking with Claudius and Gertrude during the opening scene. There's a stark contrast ... In this production Polonius was spying on everybody in the Court.

There is no play more iconic than Hamlet. So colossal is its reputation that the image of a man dressed in black holding a skull has come to represent the entire art form of live theatre.