Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s finest work, Hamlet is a gloomy, twisted tragedy about a Danish prince who sets out to kill his uncle, spurred on by his father’s ghost.
Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s finest work, Hamlet is a gloomy, twisted tragedy about a Danish prince who sets out to kill his uncle, spurred on by his father’s ghost. He pretends to be mad in order to rise above suspicion, but soon the boundaries between fact and fiction blur as he begins to lose his grip on reality. It’s the original psychological thriller and has inspired a plethora of responses – once you’ve read the book, why not compare the different movie adaptations starring Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, and David Tennant?