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In the Disney « The Lion King« , the viewer sees the relationship between Simba, the young lion and Mufasa, his father. So, the two stories are similar: Scar (Claudius =), the wicked uncle, trap Mufasa (= Hamlet’s father / Polonius) who dies. Scar can then reign on the lion’s earth. After the murder of his father, Simba (= Hamlet) ran away because his uncle accused him of being responsible for the death of his father. He finds refuge with Timon (= Rosencrantz ?) and Pumbaa (=Guildenstern ?), a meerkat and a warthog, which makes this story comic. The same cowardice found at Simba as in Hamlet.. Another common point : thinking about death ; very present in Shakespeare, is also found in the words of Mufasa when he explains to his son the « cycle of life » (the body that turn into grass and the ancestors watching us from the stars).

So I don’t know if we can say that « The Lion King » is a kind of addaptation Hamlet, but in any case, I think there a few similarities with the play.