William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
A basic introduction to Shakespeare's play Hamlet
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William Shakespeare
His House
The most famous play writer in the West. He also
wrote love poems, histories, comedies and
tragedies.
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Hamlet and the grave digger
Hamlet is here talking to the grave digger.
The meaning of the conversation is that death
comes suddenly and quickly to all and once we are
dead we are quickly forgotten
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The basic story of Hamlet

• The story about the Danish Prince "Hamlet", who
  plans revenge on his uncle, the current king, for
  killing his father, the former king. Hamlet
  pretends madness because his mother marriage to
  his evil uncle. The uncle tries to kill Hamlet
  several times, once in England and once in
  Denmark with poison. In the end all dis by poison
  and sword.

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This is the queen who the kings murderer married
Here is the man who really killed his brother the
king. His expression here is of guilt
This is Hamlet. He is looking at the new king to
see if he is guilty of killing his father, the
former king
This is a picture if a famous scene from Hamlet.
Hamlet pays some actors to play a story where the
Kings brother kills the King and marries his
wife. Hamlet does this to see if the Kings
brother did actually kill his brother the king.
These are the actors of the play
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Ophelia
This is the women who Hamlet loves. Her name is
Ophelia. Due to Hamlet accidentally killing her
father, she goes mad and commits suicide. Later
Hamlet will also tragically lose his life due to
her death.
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Ophelia
A picture of Ophelia What is she doing?
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King Claudius

• Ghost appearing to be Hamlet's father, the former
  king

Young Hamlet is not sure if the ghost he sees is
real or his imagination. Even by the end of the
play it is unclear if he really does believe the
ghost is real or not
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Gertrude
This is Hamlets mother, Gertrude. Hamlet loves
his mother very much although he finds it
terrible that his mother married his fathers
bother so quickly after her husbands death
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To be or not to be, that is the question.
Hamlet asks the a question to his mother as to
what is the meaning of life and is death
better to life. Upon asking these questions he
thinks he found a spy and kills the spy.
Unfortunately, the man he kills is not a spy but
Ophelias father, Polonius
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Polonius
This is the man Hamlet accidentally kills. He is
Ophelia's father
He says many things in this story which are
famous for their meaning. For example To thine
(your) ownself be true What do you think this
might mean ?
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Hamlet

• The story Hamlet is full of philosophy and
  Tagedy. It is a very good tragedy as everybody
  ends up being poisoned, murdered or commiting
  suicide.