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When you crack open a study guide for Hamlet, you’re not just diving into a single play—you’re embarking on a journey through centuries of human thought, […]

👑 Gertrude: Queen, Mother, Woman Gertrude occupies a precarious position: she’s a royal figure, a mother to a grieving son, and a woman navigating a patriarchal […]

Ophelia is Polonius’ daughter. She is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge. Attracted by her sweet beauty after the depressing event of his father’s death, […]

Horatio is a friend of Hamlet’s. He lives in Elsinor. This character appears in acts I (i,13 – 69),IV (v, 1 – 35) and V (i, […]

Laertes is Polonius’s son, Ophelia’s brother and he appears in acts I (ii,1-63, iii,1-83 ), IV (v, 112 – 135) and V (i, 137-219 – ii […]

THE GHOST The ghost’s apparition is the event that makes the plot start. His apparition unchains different reactions between the people who see it. The first […]

Marcellus, Barnardo and Francisco are the soldiers of the guard of the royal Palace of the King of Denmark. They appear at the beginning of the […]

The scene with the Gravediggers (Hamlet, V, i , 166 – 184 ) strikes particularly because it includes both comical and melancholy elements side by side […]

The Actors The actors arrive at Elsinore (II, ii) and immediately Hamlet asks the main actor to recite a melodramatic speech about the killing of Priam […]

Yet revenge tragedies were popular at the Globe theatre. The excitement of watching someone, who had been grievously wronged and whom the law would not help, […]

Hamlet’s Melancholy and Death Since the beginning of the play Hamlet has been presented as a melancholic person; in fact, Claudius and Gertrude try to convince […]

https://youtu.be/lDTo1tdtfGU?autoplay=1&mute=1″ width=”560″ height=”315″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”> In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark exhibits tendencies that can be aligned with Stoic philosophy, particularly in his struggle to […]