Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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What's Up with Hamlet? Prince Hamlet is a moody, smart-alecky teenager with suicidal tendencies,...

Ghosts are a common element in revenge tragedy (which you can read more about by going to "Genre"...

Claudius is the current king of Denmark. He's married to his dead brother's wife, Gertrude, which...

Queen Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and the wife of her dead husband's brother, King Claudius. Ger...

A Danish lord, Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Audiences tend to remember him for...

Ophelia, a beautiful young woman, is the young daughter of Polonius, the sister of Laertes, and H...

Laertes, a young Danish lord, is the son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia. He spends most of hi...

Horatio is Hamlet's closest friend. Unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (also Hamlet's old chums)...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern seem incapable of functioning independently, so they're basically on...

Fortinbras is a Norwegian prince who seeks revenge for his father's death. (Old Fortinbras, forme...

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