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4 days ago · Hamlet dies of a wound inflicted by a sword that Claudius and Laertes have conspired to tip with poison; in the scuffle, Hamlet realizes what has happened and forces Laertes to exchange swords with him, so that Laertes too dies—as he admits, justly killed by his own treachery.
- David Bevington
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈ h æ m l ɪ t /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.
Polonius secretly sends Reynaldo after him to report on his behaviour. Hamlet meets the Ghost and hears that he was murdered by Claudius: he vows revenge and makes Horatio and the others swear an oath of secrecy. He feigns madness to cover his plans.
Hamlet waits, Hamlet prepares her revenge by breaking mother’s heart with cruel but truthful words about her betrayal of not only memory, but also the life of the king, the accidental murder of the royal adviser – the cunning trickster Polonius, sending “friends” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death .
The supernatural appearance of the ghost on a chilling, misty night outside Elsinore Castle indicates immediately that something is wrong in Denmark. The ghost serves to enlarge the shadow King Hamlet casts across Denmark, indicating that something about his death has upset the balance of nature.
Act 1 sets up the circumstances around Old Hamlet’s death and Hamlet’s need for revenge – showing us how Hamlet feels about his mother’s new marriage and the promises he makes to the ghost of his father, to avenge his murder.
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Rather than seeing Hamlet as a demonstration of how hamartia can bring a great man down, Hamlet's own reading of his story encourages us to see it as a tragedy of sacrifice, in which the protagonist dies not for his sins and failures but as a consequence of his having undertaken the cause of righting a great wrong in an imperfect world.
