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A definition or brief description of Hamlet.

Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 - 1601, set in Denmark, recounts 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.