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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-04 07:35:02.
(Language: English)
I'm a huge Shakespeare fan.I read three of what I thought would be easier plays to understand before I tackled this one.Not written as a book obviously,it was enacted on stage for over four hundred years and still a major draw in both theatre and film, Hamlet embodies everything about the Elizabethan view of the classic tragic hero.He thinks when action is required of him and he acts when he should think.His response to his father's mysterious death,was he feigning madness or truly insane?The play itself is a perfect example of irony.As influential as it is enduring despite true authorship to Shakespeare being disputed even today,it will remain a classic because of it's timeless theme of the protaganist's inability to achieve his goals,which to the Elizabethan audience it simply means all the major characters die.
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