The peak of Shakespeare's work, of course, is Hamlet. The summary can hardly convey the whole dramaturgy and philosophical significance of the work, but it will give some idea.
So Elsinore, the Kingdom of Denmark. At night, at the guard post,
in front of the castle appears the ghost of the late king, Hamlet's father. The loyal friend of the prince, Horatio, informs him of this and the excited Hamlet immediately goes to meet him. Forced to wander until atonement for his sins, the king tells his son about the betrayal of his brother, the current
King of Denmark, Claudius, who, having killed him, seized the throne and married the widow Gertrude. The ghost of the king calls for revenge for murder and incest, and wants Hamlet to do it. The summary only partially allows us to describe the prince’s deep sadness from the mystery revealed to him, he is lost in thought. In his passionate monologues, he is disappointed in life values, exposes sorrow from the loss of his father, is indignant at the marriage of his mother, who has not yet demolished the shoes in which she went behind her stepfather and unleashes her anger on her uncle who raised his hand to his brother!
Having put on a mask of a madman, Hamlet thinks out a plan of revenge and allows himself to say everything he thinks. Everyone is worried about the prince's behavior. The nobleman Polonius, who forbade his daughter Ophelia to reciprocate the feelings of the prince, believes that this was precisely what caused Hamlet's frenzy. But convincing everyone of his madness, the prince is cruel with Ophelia, offering her to go to the monastery.
"To be or not to be?" the philosopher asks the tormented prince. At this time, a troupe of actors comes to the castle and Hamlet takes advantage of this. The summary of the play they played, according to the prince, was diluted by the scene of his own composition, exposing the king in his atrocities. To prove the ghost, the king leaves the show in a rage and decides to get rid of the crazy nephew at all costs. Accelerates the course of events the death of the weaving intrigue of Polonius. In a fit of anger, during a quarrel with his mother, Hamlet pierces the nobleman hiding behind the carpet, secretly hoping that there is Claudius.
The king decides to immediately send the prince to England, handing his death sentence to his companions. But the plot is uncovered, Hamlet is captured by the pirates and safely returns to Elsinore. Ophelia, distraught from sorrow, drowned in the river. Returning Laertes, vowing to avenge his father and sister, is announced that the culprit of all deaths is Hamlet. The summary does not allow us to convey the prince’s depth of thoughts about the mortality of earthly existence in the scene at the cemetery during the funeral of Ophelia. Holding in his hands the skull of Yorik's court jester, Hamlet discusses life after death and concludes that whoever you are during life, everyone’s fate will only become clay.
Unaware of Laertes plotting with the king, Hamlet agrees to a duel. Armed with a poisoned rapier, Laertes dies and injures Hamlet, who, before his death, manages to avenge his father by plunging his cunning weapon into the king. The Queen Mother dies, having tasted the wine with poison, such a fate for sins prepared for her by Shakespeare.
Hamlet ... The summary of this tragedy is not enough to provide a complete picture of this deadly drama. Horace also wants to die with a friend, but Hamlet begs him to live and testify to the accomplished revenge. Hamlet is buried with all honors as a warrior and as a hero.
A cultural person should get acquainted with the work of Shakespeare more deeply, not only by reading a brief summary. Hamlet is the greatest work in which critics do not stop finding more and more vital thoughts.