Hamlet is probably the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, judging by the number of productions: for example, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare since 1879. The plot contains elements of revenge tragedy, fratricide, murder, existentialist self- questioning and supernatural intervention. It is Shakespeare’s longest play , and the part of prince Hamlet is by far the largest role in any of his plays.
This a story about young Prince Hamlet who bears the same name as his father, the King of Denmark, who has recently and unexpectedly passed away. His brother, Claudius, has inherited the throne and taken the former kings wife ( and also Prince Hamlets mother ), Gertrude, as his own. Prince Hamlet is greatly grieved by the surrogation of Claudius to the throne and Gertrude’s hasty remarriage to her departed husband's brother, whom Prince Hamlet considers hardly worth of comparison to his father.
On a dark winter night, a ghost resembling the deceased King Hamlet appears to Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio, watchmen of Elsinore Castle in Denmark
Upon notice of Claudius and Gertrude, a pair of Hamlets schoolmates named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are appointed to monitor him and discover the cause of his apparent insanity. Polonius, the councellor to the King, suspects that the origin of Hamlets madness lies with his love for Polonius daughter,
Ophelia. However, in a secretly overseen meeting between the two suspected lovers, there is no evidence that Hamlet loves Ophelia؛ to the contrary, he orders her away to a nunnery.
Hamlet contrives a plan to uncover Claudius’s guilt by staging a play re-enacting the murder. Claudius interrupts the play midway through and leaves the room. Horatio confirms the Kings reaction and Hamlet goes to avenge his father. He is poised to Kill when he finds Claudius in prayer but concludes that Killing him now would result in his soul's passage to heaven – an inappropriate fate for one so evil. However, when he leaves, Claudius reveals that he had not been praying in a very pious manner.
Hamlet goes to confront and reprimand his mother. When he hears a noise behind the curtain, he thrusts his sword into it, Killing the eavesdropping Polonius. Fearing for his own safety, Claudius deports Hamlet to England
Ophelia, afflicted by grief, goes mad and drowns in a river ( perhaps by her own doing ). Laertes, her brother and Polonius’s son, returns from his visit to France Denmark after his ship was attacked by pirates on the way to England
During the bout, Gertrude drinks from the poisoned goblet and dies. Laertes succeeds in cutting Hamlet, then is cut by his own blade. With his dying breath, he reveals the King's plot to kill Hamlet. Hamlet manages to kill Claudius before he too succumbs to the fatal poison. Fortinbras, a Norwegian price with ambitions Of conquest, leads his army to Denmark
In this play, price Hamlet is by far the major presence: his problem is central to the plot, and his public wit and private speculations dominate the action. The part of the Prince is far longer that any other in all of Shakespeare’s plays. This most popular tragedy has many dark corners ( Is the ghost good or evil ? Why did Ophelia die?), yet the biggest mysteries of all concern Hamlet's character, his psychology, and his real motivations. Can we make any sense of him at all ? there has been no dearth of speculation no these and many other questions about this central character in Western literature . Anther important aspect of the character is the debate regarding Hamlets exact age in the play. While some consider it to be in the thirties, other interpret his age in the teens to better explain his rebellious attitude.
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