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Why We Should Read Hamlet

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is one of William Shakespeare’s most notorious plays. Countless productions have been produced all over the world and a multitude of literary geniuses such as Edgar Allan Poe and Harold Bloom have contemplated the meaning of the work. Hamlet is a particularly long production, which is part of what makes it unique; however, due to the length few renditions of Shakespeare’s masterpiece include all the lines. This means for audiences to fully experience Shakespeare’s Hamlet audiences should read the playwright. The clever thing about Hamlet is that, as Samuel Johnson points out in his piece “Shakespeare’s Universality,” the characters are not “modified by the customs of particular places”(1540) but are “genuine progeny

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