A review by emilymknight
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

dark sad tense medium-paced

4.5

At first I was a little unsure on how to feel about this play, but, after studying this play and writing an essay on it, I have now fully come to appreciate it's beauty and complexity. My eyes have been opened to the darkness with which Denmark is poisoned, not only on a political level but on a personal and social level. Corruption has seeped into every area of Denmark and Hamlet becomes part of the very problem he seeks to remove. 

Something certainly is rotten in the state of Denmark and I love it!

"Lay her i'th'earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!"

"If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity for awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
To tell my story."