The play hamlet has entertained audiences for centuries and for centuries the answer to one question has eluded audiences, who is hamlet. ... Hamlets father, the king of Denmark, has died recently. The king's brother Claudius promptly marries Hamlet's mother and takes the throne for himself, much to hamlets displeasure. ... Laertes and Hamlet proceed to dual and both are stabbed by the same poison sword, Claudius is then stabbed with the sword and Hamlets mother Gertrude Drinks poison wine. ... The most significant reasons for this are the fact that his mother has married in such ...

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The tragedy of Hamlet told in the widely known play Hamlet written by the 16th-century play writer William Shakespeare is still recited and treasured today. ... By Act 3 scene 1 Hamlet has endured many grim events; the murderous death of his father, his mother remarrying his loathed uncle with only a short period of mourning for her husband's death, the denial of love from whom he desired, Ophelia, and is presented with the task to take revenge for his father's murder from whom he suspects is his father's ghost. Hamlet is surrounded and overwhelmed with much conflict and calamit...

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Hamlet is a revenge tragedy of Elizabethan drama, written in about 1602 by William Shakespeare. ... In Shakespeare's play, the death of Old King Hamlet triggers different actions in its major characters; especially Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and to a lesser extent Polonius and Ophelia. ... In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... In short, his mood alters between depression and elation (pinkmonkey.com). ... Does she intentionally betray Hamlet? ...

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