Hamlet play biography
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Hamlet
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet at Adelphi, 1899
Synopsis and plot overview of Shakespeare's Hamlet
TL;DR (may contains spoilers): Hamlet sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies.
Hamlet Summary
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet's opponent and Hamlet himself are all killed.
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Act I
Late at night, guards on the battlements of Denmark's Elsinore castle are met by Horatio, Prince Hamlet's friend from school. The guards describe a ghost they have seen that resembles Hamlet's father, the recently-deceased king. At that moment, the Ghost reappears, and the guards and Horatio decide to tell Hamlet.
Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, married Hamlet's recently-widowed mother, becoming the new King of Denmark. Hamlet continues to mourn for his father's death and laments his mother's lack of loyalty. When Hamlet hears of th
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Hamlet - Entire Play
Queen, ⌜the⌝ Council, as Polonius, and his son Laertes,
Hamlet, with others, ⌜among them Voltemand and
Cornelius.⌝
KING
0191Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
0192The memory be green, and that it us befitted
0193To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
0194To be contracted in one brow of woe,
01955Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
0196That we with wisest sorrow think on him
0197Together with remembrance of ourselves.
0198Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
0199Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state,
020010Have we (as ’twere with a defeated joy,
0201With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
0202With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
0203In equal scale weighing delight and dole)
0204Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred
020515Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
0206With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
0207Now follows that you know. Young Fortinbras,
0208Holding a weak supposal of our worth
0209Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death
021020Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
0211Colleaguèd with this dream of his advantage,
0212He hath not failed to pester us with message
0213Importing the surrender of those lands
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Hamlet
Tragedy by William Shakespeare
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