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In Hamlet, the first in this series of
masterpieces, Shakespeare deals
with his great tragic themes in the
frame of a revenge tragedy. Upon
his return to Denmark from his
university studies, young prince
Hamlet learns from the ghost of
his recently dead father, old king
Hamlet, that he had actually been
poisoned by his brother, Claudius,
who was now the new king and
who had married Gertrude, the
widow queen. Young Hamlet is
thus confronted with the horrors of
fratricide and incest, and with the
immense burden of revenge,
required by his dead father.
In order to find confirmation for the
ghosts story, Hamlet arranges a
play which represents a similar
scene of murder, Claudiuss guilty
conscience betrays him.
Horatio, Marcellus,
Hamlet,
and the Ghost
Hamlet's hesitations
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