Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Just to warn you now, regardless of the fact I am putting this on two review sites and I am using it as a revision tool too.. I have a Hamlet exam on the 20th of January and my revision - well I'm trying!!! So I am using this as an aid to remind myself about the play and the characters and also give you all a review of the play! Well obviously my reason for reading this play in the first place is for my exam, because I am not going to lie to you I would not have read this under normal circumstances.. I'm not sure anyone would! Well someone must because it is probably one of Shakespeare's most ... more

It is a fine summer afternoon in the year 1601. In the Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames the crowd waits in eager anticipation to see the new tragedy, Hamlet. The noise is deafening. In the covered galleries sit the merchants, the professional classes, the students. A few nobles and court gallants are actually sitting on the apron stage itself, and if they do not care for the play they will make their displeasure known. But the most din comes from the groundlings, standing in the body of the theatre, under the open sky. They are not easy to please, though they have their favourites ... more

Hamlet by William Shakespeare Far from being an "artistic failure" as my favourite poet T. S. Eliot describes it, Hamlet is my favourite play of all time. Perhaps the best thing about this masterpiece, in addition to Shakespeare's very well-known mastery of language and fantastic characterization, remains to be how it raises an endless number of questions. And, contrary to what one might expect, the more you read it, the more questions you end up with. I always remember certain lines of it, and every time I read it or watch it I cry when Horatio says: "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of ... more

Hi everyone, its good to be back!! Been away a while studying, but im back for a bit to get your valued opinion on my last peice of English Literature corsework, i struggle with Shakespeare and I would greatly appretiate your honest opinion, which i know you will do otherwise you would not be a ciaoer!!!! thanks. #################################### H ow would a modern day audience respond to the presentation of women in Hamlet? William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603. Hamlet is a play of its time in the presentation of female characters. There are only two women in Hamlet. Gertrude, Hamlets ... more

This is Shakespeare’s longest play, and of all Shakespearean characters, and Hamlet himself has more words in this play than any other Shakespeare character. It’s one of the most performed of his plays, and is one of the most quoted plays – I’m sure we’ve all heard ‘To be, Or not to be …’ even if perhaps not all have us have read Hamlet. Hamlet is a tragedy, and the main themes are revenge and death – in the play, we get to see the feelings of five sons who have lost their fathers through murder, and in the famous to be or not to be speech, Hamlet grapples with the concept of death. At another ... more