Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca

by William Shakespeare, Raúl Falcó (foreword)

Hamlet es la historia más abstracta del dramaturgo inglés, una obra donde se busca la exploración profunda del ser humano. Y donde, también, el tema de la muerte predomina ampliamente en toda la obra. Es la tragedia donde el eje central es el tema de la venganza, al que se le van aunando otros más. Donde los temas de poder, traición, locura y violencia están presentes. Llena de suspenso y hasta de situaciones sangrientas, es un clásico de gran atractivo. La cual se sabe "… que el público atiborraba los teatros para deleitarse con tal obra".

202 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 20, 2015

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

Reviews

[Julia Snel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meestal vind ik Shakespeare een goede schrijver; filosofisch, romantisch en poëtisch, maar hij was geen goede plotschrijver. Dat merk je in Hamlet. Hamlet is een filosoof, maar misschien als enige interessante personage in een tragedie niet helemaal geschikt.

[Hazel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hamlet se centra en el príncipe de Dinamarca, quien, tras la muerte de su padre, el rey, es visitado por su fantasma, revelándole que fue asesinado por su propio hermano, Claudio, quien ahora usurpa el trono y se casa con la reina Gertrudis, madre de Hamlet. Hamlet, sumido en el dolor y la duda, finge locura para investigar y vengar a su padre, desatando una espiral de traición, corrupción y tragedia que culmina en un duelo mortal donde mueren casi todos los personajes principales, incluyendo a Hamlet, quien finalmente cumple su venganza en sus últimos momentos.
Hamlet es una tragedia que trasciende la venganza para convertirse en una profunda reflexión sobre la conciencia humana, la duda moral y el sentido de la existencia. El conflicto central no es externo, sino interior: la lucha entre el pensamiento y la acción en un mundo marcado por la corrupción y la ambigüedad ética.
El desenlace trágico revela que no existe una justicia pura en un mundo corrupto: todos los personajes son arrastrados por un sistema de engaño, violencia y poder.

[kar4 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Juzgando por supuesto el libro en su contexto histórico (porque no se debe juzgar con los sesgos de la sociedad actual), es una tragedia que uno debe leer pues es la base de muchas otras historias. Ignorando que hay cosas que dice que no son de mi agrado, sí que tiene una forma de explicar algunas acciones o situaciones que nunca había escuchado y que me han llamado mucho la atención. Sin duda, es un clásico.

[luci · Rating 3 out of 5]

Han hablado cosas que no he entendido muy bien pero bueno, espero que me salga bien el examen 🙏

[Morgan Mead · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hamlet Q1 14.15 you will always be famous.

[Lucía Salcedo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ofelia siempre mi personaje favorito. Hamlet es para mí lo que Edipo fue para Aristóteles.

[Malvina Gendra · Rating 5 out of 5]

No sé si Shakespeare esperaba transformarlo en una comedia, pero Hamlet es tan ocurrente que me sacó muchas risas. Also, R.I.P Ofelia, la primera víctima de una situationship