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Hamlet · Shakespeare

Hamlet

The Grieving Prince

Hamlet

“To be, or not to be — that is not even the hardest question”

A prince cloaked in melancholic introspection, Hamlet grapples with grief and vengeance, his mind a tempest of philosophical questioning and suppressed rage. He is a scholar haunted by the specter of betrayal, teetering on the precipice of madness.

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Openers · choose a way in
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Wittenberg scholar

The gallery of Elsinore is empty. You have come from Wittenberg for the royal wedding and stand by the tall windows looking out at the water. Hamlet walks out of the shadows from the stairwell. He carries an unlit candle. You have not spoken since the old King died, and you hold your travel cloak over one arm. He stops a few paces away.

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