Hamlet summary in 100 words
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Hamlet Play: All About Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Presenting an overview of Shakespeare’s Hamlet play, including quick facts, a plot summary, a character review, setting summary, answers to commonly asked questions about Hamlet and links to more indepth reviews.
Quick Hamlet Facts
When was Hamlet written?
1601
What type of play is Hamlet?
Hamlet is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Where is Hamlet set?
Hamlet is set in the cold, dark isolation of Elsinor a bleak, snow-covered region of Denmark. It’s the royal court of the King of Denmark. The atmosphere is established on the cold, windy battlements of the castle. Most of the action takes place in the interior rooms and corridors of the castle and one scene is set in a nearby cemetery. Read more detail on the settings in Hamlet.
What themes run through Hamlet?
The play falls into the genre of the ‘revenge tragedy’, which was very popular in the Jacobean era with its taste for violence and intrigue. Revenge is the most obvious, and one of the main, themes of the play. Although explora
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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
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Hamlet
Tragedy by William Shakespeare
This article is about the play by William Shakespeare. For its protagonist, see Prince Hamlet. For the type of settlement, see Hamlet (place). For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation).
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is considered among the "most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language", with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". It is widely considered one of the greatest plays of all time.[2] 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 passages missing from the others.
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