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Riassunto Hamlet

The king of Denmark and Hamlet's father, has dead and after two months his wife gets married again with
her brother-in-law, Claudius, and he becomes the new king. Hamlet was told that a ghost that looked like
his father was appeared in the castle and with his friend Horatio decides to look for it. The ghost tells
Hamlet that he was killed by Claudius and asks him for a revenge. Hamlet makes a plan to murder Claudius
and he lets all the people think that he's got mad. Polonius, the king's counsellor, believe that Hamlet's got
mad because of he was in love with his daughter, Ophelia. Hamlet's plan goes on. In the caste he makes a
play in which he acts the scene of the murder. His mother and Claudius are very surprised.

While he was talking to his mother, Hamlet looks at a man that is hearing their conversation and he kills
him since he thinks that he's Claudius. But he's wrong since the man was Polonius. Claudius sends him in
England to get rid of him.

When he goes back Denmark, Ophelia is dead since she's killed herself and her brother, Laertes, wants to
revenge his father and sister's deaths. So Hamlet and Laertes makes a duel in which both of them die since
they hit each others with the poisoned tip of Laertes's sword. The queen dies since she drinks a poisoned
wine destineted to Hamlet. Claudius dies murdered by Hamlet. The new king is Horatio, nominated by
Hamlet before his death.

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