Literature

Ophelia is the obedient daughter and loving partner of Hamlet, who is supposed to marry him. However, Hamlet’s aggression and behavior drives her to madness and she drowns. […]

Hamlet believes Gertrude and Claudius get married merely for lust and accuses his mother of that until she gets deeply affected. Gertrude feels guilt and regret, which Hamlet aims at from the beginning. […]

Many people have described Hamlet’s mother as a dull and shallow woman who prefers to live like a happy sheep among other happy sheep. However, this is what the readers wanted Gertrude to be like, not what she really was like. […]

Hamlet is able to put stagecraft to work as the test of Claudius’s guilt. In the process, he gives an important advice to the players about acting. It is small wonder that people have often seen much of Shakespeare himself in the character of Hamlet. […]

While watching ‘Hamlet’ on the stage, it looks like Shakespeare is putting his entire knowledge about the theater into this play. What we see on stage is the result of both Shakespeare’s and Hamlet’s obsession with drama, stagecraft, and acting. […]

The opening scenes of Shakespeare’s tragedies follow a pattern. ‘Hamlet’ is the best play to understand this pattern. So, it is important to focus on the dynamics, the structure, and the action of the first scene. […]