Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
A great book. First published AD 1602, written in Early Modern English
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
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Later works that draw on Hamlet.
UlyssesGreat book
James Joyce, AD 1922
Stephen Dedalus is Hamlet as much as Telemachus: a mourning son in black, haunted by his mother. In the library episode he lays out his theory of the play, that Shakespeare saw himself in the ghost, the father, rather than the prince.
Source: Wikipedia, Ulysses (novel)
“After Homer's Odyssey, the literary work Ulysses parallels most closely is William Shakespeare's Hamlet.” Read it there
