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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Most Famous Shakespearean Play of All-Time

And the most famous Shakespearean play of all-time is... Hamlet!
Hamlet was a very significant play of Shakespeare. The title Hamlet was named after Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 12. Hamlet was a play all about the philosophy of death. And yes, apparently people back in Will's time loved to learn all about the gory facts of death. How appetising. The word "Hamlet" is literally world-famous. Everywhere you go, all you have to do is to yell "Hamlet!" and people will start to think about (again) the gory facts of death, the famous line "To be, or not to be/that is the question", and the legendary skull. The skull is Yorick's, and King Hamlet, the protagonist of Hamlet, holds up the skull and says the most well-known line of the history of plays : "To be, or not to be/that is the question."
Here's the brief synopsis:
Claudius killed Hamlet's father, the King of Denmark, by pouring poison into the king's ear. Hamlet's mother, though, still married Claudius two months later after the murder because she had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO KILLED HER HUSBAND. Jeez. She should pay more attention. The guards of the castle see Hamlet's father: as a ghost. The ghost tells Hamlet that Hamlet's uncle (Claudius) killed him and Hamlet shall avenge him, so Hamlet pretended to go insane and crazy like a harpy or something, so no one would suspect anything. The king and queen feel like something is wrong with Hamlet (Yes, it's so obvious) because he is deeply in love with Ophelia. So they put him in a room with Ophelia to make sure (I wonder what they do). But Hamlet was pretending to be mean to Ophelia, so Claudius suspects that Hamlet knows for sure that he killed Hamlet's father. Ophelia goes insane (insanity was popular in Hamlet) and drowns herself because Hamlet doesn't love her. (Wow. She suicided because someone rejected her. Typical.) Hamlet goes to the theatre and tells the theatre guys to perform a certain play, but change the ending into... The boyfriend of the queen shall poison the king by pouring toxic liquid into his ears. Then the king died. Claudius, who was watching the play, thought Hamlet's father's ghost had cursed him and was damning him to hell. He decided to murder Hamlet.
Ophelia's brother blames Hamlet for the death of Ophelia and challenges him to a death fight- a duel to the death. At the duel, Claudius puts poison in a glass of wine and all over a sword because he wants to kill Hamlet. The queen mistakenly drank the wine... Ta da! She dies. Hamlet and Ophelia's brother stab one another repeatedly. Hamlet dies, but not before he killed Ophelia's revenge-seeking brother first.

 


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