Аннотация:In the XIX century technological changes and increasing literacy rates in Britain made Hamlet together with other Shakespeare’s works accessible to various strata of society. In the beginning of the century juvenile Hamlets became available. The tragedy was considered an important component of proper upbringing, and children were being frequently introduced to it through such editions as Charles Lamb’s prose adaptation (published in 1807 in Tales from Shakespeare: for the use of Young Persons) or expurgated Family Shakespeare (1807) edited by Henrietta and Thomas Bowdler. Another stream of Shakespeare’s adaptation can be represented by chapbooks and down-market children’s periodicals that soon started their own assimilation of Shakespeare’s text. Several adaptations of Hamlet, from sentimental to burlesque, appeared in The Boys of England weekly magazine through the second half of the XIX century, and all of those – even parodies – could serve to be educative for young readership , as well as they drove attention to Shakespeare’s personality, being represented as the embodiment of various Victorian virtues.