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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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Three times the ghost of Denmark’s dead king had stalked the battlements of Elsinore Castle. On the fourth night Horatio, Hamlet’s friend, brought the young prince to see the specter of his father. Since his father’s untimely death two months earlier, Hamlet had been grief-stricken and exceedingly melancholy. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of his father perplexed him, and his mother had married Claudius, the dead king’s brother, much too hurriedly to suit Hamlet’s sense of decency.

That night, Hamlet saw his father’s ghost and...

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