Hamlet

When the ghost of his murdered father reveals that he was killed by his own brother—now king and married to Hamlet’s mother—the melancholy Prince of Denmark is torn between the demand for revenge and an agonized paralysis of doubt, feigning madness as the court spirals toward tragedy. Shakespeare’s greatest and most influential play probes conscience, mortality, madness, and action in language of unmatched richness, giving the world ‘To be, or not to be’ and countless phrases woven into everyday speech. Endlessly staged, quoted, and interpreted, Hamlet is a bottomless masterpiece and, for many, the supreme achievement of world drama—a tragedy that speaks to every generation anew.