William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play about a prince who must take the throne from his evil uncle, who killed the prince’s father. This classic play most likely influenced the animated film Aladdin, about a princess who sneaks out of her father’s castle and falls in love with a young man whom she is forbidden from marrying. The Little Mermaid, about a mermaid princess who goes against the king’s wishes and travels to the surface of the ocean. Beauty and the Beast, about an arrogant prince who is turned into a monster when he is unkind to a woman seeking his help. The Lion King, about a cub who fights his father’s brother to gain control of the animal kingdom his father once controlled.