Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Around 1601, William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It is more than a revenge tragedy: it is the portrait of a modern mind, torn between action and doubt. The soliloquy “To be or not to be” has become the great existential question of Western theater.
Ghosts, feigned madness, a final duel: the play mixes the supernatural with psychology long before psychology had a name. Hamlet is nothing like the impulsive heroes of classical drama, who strike at once. He thinks too much to act fast, and that is exactly what makes him immortal. Shakespeare invents a character who doubts everything, himself included.
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- 2The Elizabethan stage: a theater of the world
- 3The spiral of revenge and the weight of hesitation
- 4Melancholy and the rot of Denmark
- 5The legacy of a universal myth
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