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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Occur the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to exact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius experienced murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Denmark has a long-standing feud with neighboring Norway, which culminated when King Hamlet slew King Fortinbras of Norway in a climactic challenge years ago. Although Denmark defeated Norway, and the Norwegian throne fell to King Fortinbras's infirm brother, Denmark fears an invasion led by the lifeless Norwegian king's son, Prince Fortinbras, is imminent. The play starts on a frosty night on the ramparts of Elsinore, the Danish royal castle. The sentries Bernardo and Marcellus and Hamlet's good friend Horatio come across a ghost that appears like the late King Hamlet. They vow to tell Prince Hamlet what they have observed.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and being among the most powerful and important tragedies in British literature, with a story with the capacity of "seemingly infinite retelling and adaptation by others." The play appears to have been one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his life span and still rates among his most-performed. It includes inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been referred to as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella".
