The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Hamlet is definitely Shakespeare’s longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a tale with the capacity of “apparently countless retelling and adaptation by others.” The play seems to have been among Shakespeare’s most well-known functions during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed. They have inspired authors from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and continues to be described as “the world’s most filmed story after Cinderella”. The protagonist of Hamlet is usually Prince Hamlet of Denmark, boy of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of Ruler Claudius, his father’s sibling and successor. The play starts on a cold night on the ramparts of Elsinore, the Danish royal castle. The sentries Bernardo and Marcellus and Hamlet’s friend Horatio encounter a ghost that appears like the late King Hamlet. They vow to inform Prince Hamlet what they have witnessed… This is a detailed overview of the play, re-told in todays vocabulary.