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History: Written around 1601,
Hamlet has been performed more often than any drama, and is widely accepted as
Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Like a mirror, it reflects the concerns of each
generation who perform it making the play relevant in endlessly new an different
ways. The play offers eloquent insights into so many aspects of life, experience
and the human condition, one is able to identify with the struggle to find truth
in one’s own life. This theme of self-identification which perhaps makes Hamlet
so popular is memorably noted by the poet Coleridge who said, “It is we who are
Hamlet.” Few could doubt the truth of this invocation to be honest with
ourselves. As Polonius bids farewell to his son Laertes, he offers this advice:
“This above all, - to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night
the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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