HAMLET
William Shakespear wrote 37 plays. Among them there are dup tragedies, light comedies and historical dramas. His experience as an actor helped him greatly in the writing of his plays. His knowledge of the stage and his poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.
No doubt “HAMLET” is one of the greatest tragedies written by W.Shakespear.
I think that for every new generation a classical art has it’s own sense and it’s own meaning. New “HAMLET” in our understanding and in our feeling, is a modern theme in many of it’s parts. Shekespear was genius in making a deep investigation into history, into human nature, into the deeper understanding of humanity for all ages. Today it is impossible to understand humanity without understanding the influence of history. That is why for us Shakespear is one of the most important dramatists. A.S.Pushkin said: “Let Shakespear be your teacher”, because he understood that the general theme of Shakespear’s plays is the fate of humanity in the society based on inhuman conditions.
The plat of the play “HAMLET” is the following:
The Queen of Denmark becomes a widow by the sudden death of her husband. But in less than two months after his death she marries Claudius, her husband's brother. Claudius takes the throne of Den¬mark, though the lawful successor of the throne is Hamlet, the son of the Queen.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, studies at the Univer¬sity of Wittenberg. But he learns of his father's death and hurries home to Elsinore. Hamlet is the only one who loves the memory of his dead father and he takes to heart the strange behavior of his mother Ger¬trude.
Hamlet doesn't know the reason of his father's death. Claudius tells him about the sting of a serpent, but Hamlet doubts. He is sure that it is Claudius who has stung his father in order to take the throne. The new king fears his subjects, and the queen takes on the manner of her new husband. Hamlet loses his good looks, he wears a black suit, the symbol of death. Hamlet's friend Horatio claims that the spirit of the dead king is wandering during cold nights near the castle. One evening Hamlet and Horatio are walking near the castle when suddenly they see the Ghost coming. Seeing his father Hamlet is surprised and even afraid. Suddenly the Ghost calls Hamlet by his name and advises him to go to the more removed place, where they would be alone and the Ghost would tell his son why he has left his grave.
And when they are alone the Ghost tells him about the murder. Hamlet decides on revenge. He wants to see all evil abolished. By then he begins to think too much and to hesitate if the Ghost was telling the truth. He falls into melancholy. He pre¬tends he has gone mad. Hamlet writes a letter full of deep love to Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain. That letter makes all the court think that the reason of his madness is love.
Meanwhile, Hamlet continues to meet with his fa¬ther's spirit. But he is not sure that the Ghost is indeed his father's or if it is a devil who has assumed his father's shape in order to take advantage of Hamlet's melancholy and weakness. And Hamlet wants to find evidence of the murder. During one of the performances, when the actors acts out the death of the old King of Troy, Hamlet becomes sure of Claudius's guilt. He has got his proof. But still he hesitates. He is not a fighter, he is a humanist and a philosopher. Hamlet's soliloquy "To be, or not to be", which is the central part of the play, tells us why Hamlet puts off action.

I understand why there are a lot of stage and film versions of this ply this role and to give his own interpretation of that versatile character from a man of an unhappy fate to the expresser of “world’s sorrow”
“HAMLET” for me shows the relationship of people, tells us about eternal notions such as love friendship, faithfulness, treachery, envy, greediness…
I think that every man has his own HAMLET in his heart. Every man always has a choice: “To be or not to be”, “To do or not to do”, “To help or not to help”. And this choice depends only on him.