This article explores the connection between Disney's "The Lion King" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet"—both similarities and differences. read more
The overall thrust of the plot is straight out of Hamlet: a dead king, an heir dispossessed, a usurping brother, a father's apparition, a long hestitation, a son's return. read more
Simba is the main character in Disney's The Lion King. he is the son of Mufasa, the king of the lions, which makes Simba a prince. Hamlet, from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is the son of the dead King Hamlet, which makes him a prince too. read more
The only two people to die in the Lion King are Mufasa and Scar, but Shakespeare's Hamlet nearly kills all the protagonists we know of―Hamlet Jr, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius , and Laertes; in short, it's not a hakuna matata ending for Hamlet after all. read more