Name: Hamlet
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Author: William Shakespeare

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FL-0277E.V.

SHAKESPEARE, William

Hamlet

c. 1

A prince comes home to find his father dead, his mother remarried to his uncle, and a ghost on the battlements with an accusation. What follows is less a revenge…

1. Poetry and Myth

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William Shakespeare Hamlet Overview Everyone knows the shape of this one: a prince, a ghost, a skull, a duel, a stage full of bodies. What gets lost under four centuries of quotation is how strange the play is minute to minute. Hamlet is given a straightforward revenge job in Act I and spends the next three acts doing almost anything else — putting on a play, insulting his girlfriend, lecturing actors on diction, arguing about the shape of a cloud, and talking, at enormous length, to himself and to us.…

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Accession:FL-0277

Published:c. 1600

Language:en

Shelved under:Poetry and Myth

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