William Shakespeare's flamboyant and versatile style of writing exhibited in the world-known tragedy – Hamlet, attracts readers of all kind and stands the centuries, often as a ground to heated debates. All thanks to his glorious ability to use in abundance his extraordinary vocabulary, which is proven to enrich our language with 1700 different words still in use nowadays. Examples of these words are: addiction, belongings, cold-blooded, dishearten, eventful, fashionable, inaudible, manager, multitudinous, uncomfortable, and many more. Writer owns entirely divergent technique of writing, including application to profusion of literary devices, unusual order of words in a sentence and structure of it, pan and even though we could talk of it ceaselessly, I am going to speak about different feature of Shakespeare's ingenuity – his aptitude in referencing mythology. .
Both Biblical and mythological allusions conveyed through the enigmatic character of Prince Hamlet, leave puissant impression on the reader. Hamlet – is the prince of Denmark, who has been studying in Wittenberg, and is highly intellectual in its origin. Even very close readers come across the philosophy of Hamlet, which can be difficult, or subjective to analyze and judge. Probably, that was the reason why the author decided to choose young Prince, as a narrator with so much sophisticated manner of speaking, enormous knowledge and mental capacity. Mythology is not a story to tell, but therefore is not a historic fact to judge or question it. In the poem, mythology is so affiliated with the main theme, that it seems even natural to appear in the sentences. Through allusions, William Shakespeare illustrates the inner mental and physical condition of the Prince, relationship and attitude towards his family members, relatives and friends, main direction of the tragedy and gives a clue how it ends. .
First link to the allusion come into view in the first soliloquy of Hamlet, when he compares his father, former king of Denmark – Hamlet, and latter king – Claudius:.
