The tragedy of Hamlet traces the admirable portrait of a legendary Prince of Jutland, dreamer, contemplative, mired in doubts and irresolutions, which, forced to clarify the reasons that led to the death of his father, succumbs to the fatality of circumstances. His madness is not only, in the traditional way, a fiction and an alibi, but it becomes a way of being and a vision of the world. Its ambiguity, its ambivalence and its disorientation approach it remarkably to the sensitivity of our time. Populated by an abundant and complex gallery of "secondary" characters, the work has enjoyed a constant validity over time, which has led to the incorporation into the common language of many expressions of the work ("to be or not to be", " words, words, words »,« the rest is silence ») that have become emblematic.