Haunted by his father’s ghost and consumed by doubt, Prince Hamlet seeks revenge against his uncle, who has seized the throne of Denmark. As he wrestles with indecision, morality, and madness, his quest spirals into tragedy for himself and those around him. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the depths of human emotion and thought are laid bare—exploring revenge, betrayal, and the complexities of action and inaction.
Date: 1600 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~688 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~30.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Drama & Plays, Historical Fiction
"Hamlet is the most extraordinary single work of western literature that I have ever read in any language that I can read" — Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic
"The incidents are so numerous, that the argument of the play would make a long tale. The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solemnity" — Samuel Johnson, 18th-century English writer, critic, and lexicographer
"All that matters is Hamlet's consciousness of his own consciousness, infinite, unlimited, and at war with itself" — Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic
"Hamlet is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible because it is in excess of the facts as they appear" — T.S. Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning poet and critic
"A lovely, pure and most moral nature, which without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German literary giant and author of Faust
"Knowledge kills action, action requires the veils of illusion, that is the doctrine of Hamlet... true knowledge outweighs any motive for action" — Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and cultural critic
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