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    Hamlet Is Shakespeare's Longest Play and Among The Most Powerful and Influential Tragedies in English Literature, With A Story

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    Characters[edit] Hamlet – Son of the late King and nephew of the present King Claudius – King of Denmark and Hamlet's uncle Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet Polonius – Lord Chamberlain Ophelia – Daughter to Polonius Horatio – Friend to Hamlet Laertes – Son to Polonius Voltimand and Cornelius – Courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – Courtiers, friends to Hamlet Osric – a Courtier Marcellus – an Officer Bernardo – an Officer Francisco – a Soldier Reynaldo – Servant to Polonius Ghost of Hamlet's Father Fortinbras – Prince of Norway Gravediggers – a Sexton Player King, Player Queen, Lucianus etc. – Players A Priest A Captain in Fortinbras' army English Ambassadors Messengers, Sailors, Lords, Ladies, Guards, Danes (supporters of Laertes)

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    Characters[edit] Hamlet – Son of the late King and nephew of the present King Claudius – King of Denmark and Hamlet's uncle Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet Polonius – Lord Chamberlain Ophelia – Daughter to Polonius Horatio – Friend to Hamlet Laertes – Son to Polonius Voltimand and Cornelius – Courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – Courtiers, friends to Hamlet Osric – a Courtier Marcellus – an Officer Bernardo – an Officer Francisco – a Soldier Reynaldo – Servant to Polonius Ghost of Hamlet's Father Fortinbras – Prince of Norway Gravediggers – a Sexton Player King, Player Queen, Lucianus etc. – Players A Priest A Captain in Fortinbras' army English Ambassadors Messengers, Sailors, Lords, Ladies, Guards, Danes (supporters of Laertes)

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    Characters[edit] Hamlet – Son of the late King and nephew of the present King Claudius – King of Denmark and Hamlet's uncle Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet Polonius – Lord Chamberlain Ophelia – Daughter to Polonius Horatio – Friend to Hamlet Laertes – Son to Polonius Voltimand and Cornelius – Courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – Courtiers, friends to Hamlet Osric – a Courtier Marcellus – an Officer Bernardo – an Officer Francisco – a Soldier Reynaldo – Servant to Polonius Ghost of Hamlet's Father Fortinbras – Prince of Norway Gravediggers – a Sexton Player King, Player Queen, Lucianus etc. – Players A Priest A Captain in Fortinbras' army English Ambassadors Messengers, Sailors, Lords, Ladies, Guards, Danes (supporters of Laertes)

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    Characters[edit] Hamlet – Son of the late King and nephew of the present King Claudius – King of Denmark and Hamlet's uncle Gertrude – Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet Polonius – Lord Chamberlain Ophelia – Daughter to Polonius Horatio – Friend to Hamlet Laertes – Son to Polonius Voltimand and Cornelius – Courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – Courtiers, friends to Hamlet Osric – a Courtier Marcellus – an Officer Bernardo – an Officer Francisco – a Soldier Reynaldo – Servant to Polonius Ghost of Hamlet's Father Fortinbras – Prince of Norway Gravediggers – a Sexton Player King, Player Queen, Lucianus etc. – Players A Priest A Captain in Fortinbras' army English Ambassadors Messengers, Sailors, Lords, Ladies, Guards, Danes (supporters of Laertes)

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    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/hmlt/), is a tragedy written by William

    Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the
    revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's fatherKing
    Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude.
    Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story
    capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others." [1] The play seems to have been one of Shakespeare's most
    popular works during his lifetime[2] and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the performance list of the Royal
    Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. [3] It has inspired writers
    from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story afterCinderella".[4]
    The story of Hamlet ultimately derives from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in
    his Gesta Danorum, as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar Franois de Belleforest. Shakespeare may also have drawn
    on an earlier (hypothetical) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe he himself wrote
    the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet we now have. He almost certainly created the title role for Richard
    Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. [5] In the 400 years since, the role has been performed by highly acclaimed
    actors from each successive age.
    Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto (Q1, 1603), the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), and the First
    Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines, and even entire scenes, missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of
    characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny. One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to
    kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatisation of 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 ofOphelia and Gertrude.

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