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in full Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed in 1600–01 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from a reported text, with reference to an earlier play. ...
Shakespeares telling of the story of Prince Hamlet, who after much indecision avenges the murder of his father, derives from several sources, notably from books 3 and 4 of Saxo Grammaticus 12th-century Gesta Danorum, and from volume 5 (1570) of Histoires tragiques, a free translation of Saxo by François de Belleforest. ... One scholar has suggested that the Hamlet story has its origins in the East, being similar to a tale in the 11th-century Shah-nameh (“Book of Kings”) by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. ...
Shakespeares play was evidently preceded by another play of Hamlet, now lost, and usually referred to as the Ur-Hamlet, of which Thomas Kyd is a conjectured author. ... The trait that characterizes Shakespeares Hamlet, however, is unique to the author.
Hamlet assures Gertrude that his grief for his father and his melancholy are real in Act I, scene 2 …
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As Shakespeares play opens, Hamlet is mourning his father, who has been killed, and lamenting the behaviour of his mother, Gertrude, who married his uncle Claudius within a month of his fathers death.
Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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