Paul Adrian Fried / HAMLET'S BIBLE

Since at least 2022, I've done a post around the time of Good Friday, sharing what seem to be either direct allusions, or at least echoes of the Good Friday gospel stories (the Passion of Christ) in Shakespeare's Hamlet .  The index link below is to blog posts about allusions in Hamlet to the Good Friday stories (which Shakespeare and others in England would have been required to hear via mandatory church attendance. The index covers related posts on this subject from 2022-2026. The 2022 post [1] collected a few general allusions or plot echoes. For people interested in a list of detailed, short references in the text of the play, this is a good place to start.  - A post in December of 2023 related to these by way of Ophelia's "willow" [2];  - Good Friday posts in 2024 [3] and in 2025 [4] continued this, each with new insights.  INDEX: Good Friday echoes in Hamlet - April 03, 2026. https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2026/04/index-good-friday-echoes-in-hamlet...

2024 was a very good year for the Hamlet’s Bible blog… VIEWS FOR THE YEAR came to about 17k, averaging about 326 views per week over the year. This was slightly more than a 90% increase over the average for the past six years, which was about 9k per year and 172 per week, out of a six-year total of 53.6 k views (and possibly higher [1]) from more than 80 countries since January 1, 2019. So overall, views have been steadily increasing. 17 SERIES SO FAR: Since I started posting (first on LinkedIn in 2017), I have done 17 series [2], for an average slightly more than two series per year. OPHELIA In 2024, I finished my series on Ophelia (my longest) [3]. CLAUDIUS This past year I started a new series on Claudius (to be continued at greater length in 2024) [4]. TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS I did a brief series on the twelve days of Christmas (concluding soon) [5]. POSTS WITH HIGHEST VIEWS Views of posts from the Ophelia series dominated the year, as might be expected for a long series, but o...