The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (in English, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark), more commonly referred to as the short title Hamlet, is the longest and one of the most famous plays of William Shakespeare. The exact date of composition is not known with precision; surely the first performance between 1598 and 1601. The text was published in 1601.
The King of Denmark, Hamlet's father, died recently. His brother Claudius replaced him as ROI1 and, less than two months ego, married Gertrude, the widow of his brother. The king's specter appears and reveals to his son that he was murdered by Claudius. Hamlet must avenge his father and to carry out its project simulates madness. But it seems unable to act, and before the strangeness of his behavior, one comes to wonder how he kept his reason. We put this temporary insanity on behalf of the love he would Ophelia, Polonius' daughter, chamberlain and adviser to the king. The strangeness of his behavior plunges the court into confusion. Implicated in veiled by Hamlet, Claudius perceives the danger and decides to get rid of his nephew whimsical.
Hamlet was the subject of analyzes extremely numerous and varied criticism, thematic, stylistic, historical, psychoanalytic.
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