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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

23 reviews

perleerose's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Another Shakespeare class read- learning about the direct ties between this book and the Protestant Reformation really helped me to see Hamlet in a different light. It's a fascinating and sometimes hard to follow character study of a man losing faith in himself. 
'As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Incest

seventhswan's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and War

imagemaps's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest

finn_vibing's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sunday_evening's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hammy, you would’ve loved Holden Caulfield. I’ll let you decide if that’s a compliment or not.

#JusticeForOphelia. Stripped so badly of her autonomy that she saw death as the only way out.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

rory_john14's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Sexism, and Gaslighting

jeremie's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, and Alcohol

sapphic_swiftie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny

asen123's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

It wasn’t bad. It shouldn’t be considered a literary success. I had a blast ranting on how annoying hamlet was. It was a mediocre book overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Stalking

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Entering my Shakespeare era with this play about a guy gaslighting a little too close to the sun.

I've been thinking lately that I should read some more classics now that I'm long out of high school and am no longer forced against my will to read them. I found Libby has some full cast audiobooks of Shakespeare and so I may or may not listen to a few.

And honestly, that's the way to do it. Shakespeare wrote plays, not books. Therefore it hits different when you listen/watch it. I actually tried to read Hamlet back in my freshmen year of high school for a class and only got about halfway through. Listening to it I appreciated the story much more.

Shakespeare was the it girl, Hamlet is incredibly written, filled with metaphors and monologues that complicate the characters and a plot that makes you question what's going on. There really are many ways to interpret what's happening in Hamlet. It's kind a ye olden psychological thriller in that way, questioning every character's sanity as Hamlet himself spirals.

I don't really have many intelligent thoughts right now as I listened to it all not to long ago and need to do more research, but yeah if you've been wanting to try out Shakespeare, maybe try a full cast audiobook. It's actually quite entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Misogyny, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder