Ebook
Hamlet: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Ebook · Sovereign
Hamlet: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Series
- Timeless Classics
- Language
- English
- Length
- 174 pages
- ISBN
- 9781909175631
- Published
- 15 August 2012
- Imprint
- Sovereign
- Tragedy
- Revenge
- Prince of Denmark
- Murder
- Ghost
- Deception
- Betrayal
- Existential questions
- Uncertainty
- Consequences
Description
A ghost, a court, a prince who thinks too well to strike on time. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is revenge delayed into philosophy — Claudius, Gertrude, a play inside the play, a kingdom ending in a pile of names. The most famous unease in English. Denmark as a trap that thinks. Ophelia’s flowers, a skull, a fencing bout that settles nothing gently. The play keeps asking whether action can survive intelligence, and answers in corpses. Elsinore as a mind that cannot stop thinking, and a state that cannot survive the thought.