Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Amiolou

What is the significance of the ghost in the play? 23/11/2003

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Advantages Shakespeare's best play and tragedy
Disadvantages It is one of the longest play in made

Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet was written is 1600 and is one of many political and historical dramas of it time. It touches some instinctive nerves and feeling in most audiences. I will be looking at the ghost and the significance and importance it has to the play and the characters but also to a wide range of audiences, including both contemporary and Elizabethan. Shakespeare’s language seems archaic to some modern readers but this is the language expected to his audiences at the time. The characters seem to speak in iambic pentameter without rhymes and it seems to me that each character’s ... more
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bruffyboy

Member since 01/11/2008

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To be or not to be 08/01/2009

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Advantages stunning language
Disadvantages difficult for some

Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play of all time. I studied it for A Level, and then again on my degree, and it now sits proudly on my book-shelf. It begins with Prince Hamlet, overcome with grief at the death of his father the King of Denmark. As if that wasn't enough, Hamlet's dead father visits him from the grave to tell him he was killed by his brother Claudius, Hamelt's uncle. In a tale that would today be featured on Jerry Springer, Hamlet's mother has since shacked up with Claudius, leaving Hamlet desperate for revenge, but torn about what to do. The play captures beautifully the ... more
21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful

diamond_sparkles

Hamlet by William Shakespeare:Wonderful Pyschological Analysis 11/06/2009

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Advantages Brillant insight of the human mind!! Easily transposed in modern context
Disadvantages Might be difficult to read

Hamlet remains the major psychological work of Shakespeare. In fact, a psychoanalyst Shakespearian fan will rejoice over the marvelous display of Freudian and Lacan theories, as well as the deep insights into the dark thoughts and contemplations which secretly arise even within the best of us. I personally believe that the character of Hamlet is the perfect depiction of a brilliantly troubled mind: “To Be or Not to Be” have become legendary words. In fact, this dilemma portrayed by Shakespeare is not only found all throughout, but readers/audiences of the play will be marveled as they ... more
12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful

yingli.lim

The Quintessence of Dust 14/12/2000

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Advantages loads of issues that deal with life
Disadvantages none except that Hamlet starts to get a little irritating when he starts procrastinating...

Possibly and probably one of the most acclaimned pieces of work in any time, Hamlet is truly all encompassing. Perhaps many have already read the play. Note the stage directions as you study the play or as you read it and bear in mind that Shakespeare often wrote hurridly for the entertainment of the Queen. What I like best about this play is that it is everything in nature and deals with all the social, political and even economical issues that may be relevant to us today. This is what makes Shakespeare's Hamlet as attractive and appealing, even centuries after it was written. Self worth, the ... more
27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Borg

Member since 16/08/2001

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Why all budding writers must read this book 11/12/2001

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Advantages Stylish English literature
Disadvantages Too deep at times

...Or something similar. Probably one of Mr Shakespeare’s most famous plays and featuring that infamous line, ‘To be or not to be,’ Hamlet Prince of Denmark is a work that should be read by all writers. Why, because it represents what was once in the world of literature and one can see how the written word has evolved in a century. It also shows you a different style and a different language. The plot is simple enough. Hamlet returns from schooling after his father dies and soon after that he learns from his father’s ghost that it was his stepfather who killed ... more
26 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful

roktimdutta

Member since 05/02/2009

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Shakespear, Marowitz and Hamlet- a critical appreciation 09/02/2010

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Disadvantages Read the reciew

Shakespeare, Marowitz and Hamlet ************************************** ******* Although I am not a student of English literature, but I never failed to appreciate, eulogize and keep wondering at Hamlet the great play by Shakespeare. One night, about 4 years ago I stumbled upon a copy of “The Marowitz Hamlet, A college version of Shakespeare’s play by Charles Marowitz” I finished it, in fact swallowed by next morning as if I had been starving for weeks. “He (Hamlet) gives me a pain in the ass”, this is the expression used by Marowitz and this has resulted in “The Marowitz Hamlet, A college ... more
4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful

AlexMayer

To read or not to read...? 02/07/2000

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Advantages poetic language
Disadvantages some may find the ending with Fortinbras unsatisfactory

This play is one of Shakespeare's greatest - and Hamlet's certainly one of those roles an actor dreams of. It takes the form of a revenge tragedy - a popular genre in Shakespeare's time - but being Shakespeare he manages to change it. Old Hamlet (Hamlet's father) has been murdered before the play begins. Claudius, his brother and murderer, is now king. Claudius has also married old Hamlet's widow (Hamlet's mother). Then Old Hamlet appears to Hamlet as a ghost, explains about the murder and makes Hamlet swear to avenge his death. Hamlet agrees but he is not a man of action. The play follows ... more
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LUCEJEL

NOT TO BE 06/10/2001

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Advantages Clever, lots of blood and a wonderful death scene!
Disadvantages Goes on and on and on and on and on- about nothing much!

Hello! I am here to show a more negative view of the play. I studied Hamlet for my A/S Levels, and whether it is because i am younger and only studied the book for a few months, or whatever else could have put me off the play i don't know. I can honestly say that the play is extremely wonderfully written, i'll give it that, but having read many other plays and also watched many at the theatre etc.., for this to be Shakespeare's most famous play saddened me. I won't bother going into all the deatils of the play as you will have read them in other comments, but it is basically about this mid ... more
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Kozinski

"What piece of work is a man?" 11/07/2000

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Advantages Beautiful language, excellent story.
Disadvantages It can be on the long side.

A line from one the play's most famous speeches says it all. Hamlet by William Shakespeare is hailed as one of his finest plays and I agree. It has everything that a story needs - action, romance, revenge, betrayal, incest comedy and of course beautiful language. Hamlet is Prince of Denmark; his uncle, Claudius has now married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet has never been the same since his father's (also Hamlet) mysterious death, and is not happy with his mother's all too hasty marriage to Claudius. Upon seeing a ghost of his father who tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius, it ... more
9 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful

LAPDRIGGS

The Original Martin Riggs 02/03/2003

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Advantages accessible and we can all identify with some characters
Disadvantages long

Hamlet seems to be the play that brought all Shakespeare's good points together,: the treatment of the human condition, the humour, the violence and the tragedy--plus even a bit of unrequited love. Contrary to popular theory, its not that difficult to read, so long as you concentrate on phrases and not the individual word. Great source of everyday catchphrases we still use, too. its one of those timeless pices, that still has relevancy today, --hell, i used it for my dissertation at uni ( Successfully claimed thart Martin Riggs in Lethal weapon may have been based on Hamlet (the character not ... more