Sinopsis

It is Shakespeare's largest drama, based on a lost play known as the Ur-Hamlet. Prince Hamlet, an enigmatic intellectual, mourns both his father's death and his mother's remarriage. His father's ghost appears to him and tells that Claudius, married to Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, poisoned him. Hamlet, fascinated by cruelly witty games, swears revenge. 'The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!' He arranges an old play whose story has a parallel to that of Claudius. Hamlet's behavior is considered mad. He kills the eavesdropping Polonius, the court chamberlain, by thrusting his sword through a curtain. Polonius's son Laertes returns to Denmark to avenge his father's death. Polonius's daughter Ofelia loves Hamlet, but the prince's sadistically brutal behavior drives her to madness. 'Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?' he tells Ophelia who dies by drowning. Before the slaughter that ends the story, Hamlet says to his friend Horatio: 'I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart.' A duel takes place and ends with the death of Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius, and Hamlet, whose final words are 'the rest is silence.'.