Essays on Hamlet

Directors Gregory Doran and Franco Zeffirelli both present the screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy Hamlet on the basis of their separate perceptions of the play. Doran’s approach to the play however, is more favored as opposed to Zeffirelli’s, and will be further explored...

Google claims that there are 129,864,880 different books that grace this planet with their presence. Of these millions of books however, very few can truly call themselves a classic; a bastion of thought of its’ time and a work that will be read for centuries...

In Hamlet, Claudius is seen as the antagonist throughout the play, for murdering Hamlet’s father, and marrying the deceased’s wife straight after his death. Claudius was the brother of the late King Hamlet, who murdered him, then married his widowed wife, Gertrude, and becomes the...

“Hesitation is one of our diseases.” This idea expressed by Ralph Emerson is prominent in the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home from university in Wittenberg to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Shortly...