![]() The play opens with Prince Hamlet being summoned to Denmark from Germany for his father’s funeral. Yorick’s skull is the major symbol used by the writer to introduce artistic effect in the play. The major themes of the play include fate, free will, revenge, political instability, mortality, and madness. The main characters of the play are Hamlet, the protagonist Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle Queen Gertrude Polonius Ophelia Laertes. Each version is different from others as it includes lines or excludes them making them entirely different from other. Hamlet has different version published at different ages. We can assume the popularity of the play by this that throughout centuries, the role of Hamlet is staged by the highly skillful artist. The story of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is supposed to be derived from the fable of Amleth, written in the 13th century and reiterated in the 16th century by a scholar named Francois de Belleforest. ![]() Characteristics of Hamlet | William Shakespeare ![]()
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