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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

"Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, probably written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, i****t, and moral corruption.

Despite much literary detective work, the exact year of writing remains in dispute. Three different early versions of the play have survived: these are known as the First Quarto (Q1), the Second Quarto (Q2) and the First Folio (F1). Each has lines, and even scenes, that are missing from the others. Shakespeare probably based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum and subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest, and a lost Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

The play's dramatic structure and depth of characterisation mean that Hamlet can be analysed, interpreted and argued about from many perspectives. For example, commentators have puzzled for centuries about Hamlet's hesitation in killing his uncle. Some see it as a plot device to prolong the action, and others see it as the result of pressure exerted by the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often-maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

Hamlet is by far Shakespeare's longest play, and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language. It provides a storyline capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". During his lifetime the p

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Alls Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Julius Caeser
King Henry the Fourth Part I
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fifth
King Henry the Fourth Part II
King Henry The Sixth Part I
King Henry The Sixth Part II
King Henry the Sixth Part III
King John
King Lear
King Richard the Second
King Richard the Third
Loves Labour Lost
Macbeth
A Lovers Complaint
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummers' Night Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles Prince of Tyre
Rape of Lucrece
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnets
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen
Venus and Adonis

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