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William Shakespeare (Bard of Avon (He never attended university, Actor and…
William Shakespeare
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Plays
Hamlet
Themes
power grab, decay, death, corruption and dishonesty, loyalty, real verus the unreal, sane vs. insane, the state of the nation.
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Claudius
New king of denmark, hamlets uncle, married to gertrude
Plot
prince hamlet returns home from his university to discover that his father is dead and his mother his uncle Claudius. Claudius has declared himself king. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, and his father tells him that he's been murdered by claudius and demands that Hamlet take revenge.
Setting
Castle outside copenhagen, denmark in the early middle ages
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A book of his collected plays was published in 1623, 7 years after his death