The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1564–1616
Librarian’s score9.5Claude · AI
Readers—Shown after five ratings
A revenge play in which the avenger cannot stop thinking, and the thinking becomes the drama. Shakespeare gives a prince a mind restless enough to doubt a ghost, a mother, himself and the point of acting at all, and lets the play be very funny on its way to its pile of bodies. Four centuries of actors have found something new in it.