It's hard enough to make it through our to-do list, and our biggest item is "Laundry." In comparison, Hamlet's to-do list is epic. He's got a big to-do list (and only five acts to complete it), but he just can't figure out how to get himself moving. And it gets worse: not too long after the murder, Claudius married Hamlet's mom, Gertrude. When the action begins, we discover that his dad (the King of Denmark) has been murdered by his own brother and Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. The play tells the story of Prince Hamlet.
Hamlet, in particular, has a lot of "most famous" things in it: it's Shakespeare's most famous play about Shakespeare's most famous character (that would be Hamlet), and it contains Shakespeare's most famous line: "To be or not to be, that is the question" (3.1.64). (You want an example? How about: "eaten out of house and home" or "one fell swoop.") He also tested the limits of language, inventing new words and phrases. He explored the human spirit and what happens when it is challenged. Shakespeare was a groundbreaking pioneer in his time and wrote plays that were totally different from anything the world had ever seen before. Well over 400 years after William Shakespeare wrote the play between 15, readers and audiences are still connecting with it. If extraterrestrials were to visit Planet Earth, we'd probably put a copy of Hamlet in their welcome basket.
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