Ensayo hamlet en inglés

Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminentdramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and severalother poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Hamlet was written between 1599 and 1601. The playrecounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts thecourse of real and feigned madness (from overwhelming grief to seething rage) and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

The following excerpt is the first scene in ActV. Act IV finished with the sad news about Ophelia’s drowning. This is known as “The gravedigger scene” or “The graveyard scene”, where two men, a gravedigger and a peasant, argue about suicidewhile digging a grave for Ophelia.

The main idea of the excerpt is the laugh about the absurd, which it hasn’t sense, two gravediggers who try to talk in a formal language and speak in the way that isvery difficult to understand them. One of them is the clever commoner who gets the better of his social superior through wit. With that, the intention of Shakespeare is to get a laugh from theuneducated groundlings who would enjoy a relief to the long and tension-

prevailing play. He tries to intensify the effect of tragedy by a long dialogue between the gravediggers.

In this excerpt,the two gravediggers are conversing regarding the burial of a lady whose death has taken place, as per them, under doubtful circumstances. The two gravediggers featured in this scene as two clown...