1. The author of the classic opera "Hamlet" is the British playwright Shakespeare.
2. Introduction to the work:
"Hamlet" is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1602. The play tells the story of uncle Claudius who murdered Hamlet's father, usurped the throne, and married the king's widow Gertrude; Prince Hamlet therefore avenged his father's death on his uncle.
"Hamlet" is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays. This play is the most frequently performed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, formerly known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. One of the world's famous tragedies, it is also Shakespeare's most famous play. It has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques. It represents the highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it forms Shakespeare's "four major tragedies".
3. Plot summary:
While studying at the University of Wittenberg in Germany, Prince Hamlet suddenly received the news of his father's death. When he returned home for the funeral, he met his uncle Claudius after he came to the throne. A series of events involving his uncle's hasty marriage to his mother, Gertrude, one month after his father's funeral, filled Hamlet with doubts and dissatisfaction. Immediately afterwards, the ghost of his father Hamlet appeared when Horatio and Bernardo were standing guard, indicating that he was poisoned by Claudius and asked Hamlet to avenge himself. Later, Hamlet used the pretense of madness to cover himself and confirmed through the "play within a play" that his uncle was indeed the murderer of his father. Because he mistakenly killed his beloved Ophelia's father Polonius, Claudius tried to get rid of Hamlet with the help of the British king, but Hamlet took the opportunity to escape back to Denmark, only to learn that Ophelia had committed suicide and had to accept it. duel with his brother Laertes. During the duel, Hamlet's mother Gertrude died of poisoning by accidentally drinking the poisoned wine prepared by Claudius for Hamlet. Hamlet and Laertes were both poisoned by the poisoned sword. Hamlet, who learned the reason for the poisoning, killed him before he died. Claudius died and asked his friend Horatio to tell his story to future generations.
4. Introduction to the author:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a great dramatist and poet in the British Renaissance and a leader of humanistic literature in the European Renaissance. A master of all things, he is one of the founders of modern European literature. He wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long poems and other poems. His representative works include four major tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Four major comedies: "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", and "As You Like It". Historical dramas: "Henry IV", "Henry VI", "Richard II", etc.
He is the "father of British drama", Ben Jones called him "the soul of the times", and Marx called him "one of the greatest geniuses of mankind". Known as "Zeus on Mount Olympus of human literature".