The haunted Dane--mad, feigned or merely anguished--is Shakespeare's masterpiece of characterization. A father murdered, a mother married to the murderer, a women he is not allowed to love; Hamlet is the archetypal Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespeare's words within this play rank among the highest ever written by man; witty, full of meaning and altogether genius, Hamlet is one of the world's finest classics. 122 pages, softcover.