In the 400-odd years of its life, Hamlet has found its way into multiple contexts across the globe. And now we explore Hamlet as a person who is caught in a vortex of tormented, inward-looking indecision and Oedipal self-doubt (Young). Hamlet is the hero of his time, but the time,...

The play Hamlet offers a story of a Danish royal family and conflicts arising within it after the death of the king. After the king dies, Prince Hamlet seems stricken by grief, as he knew that his senior brother had killed their father, married Gertrude, and had taken his position...