"The reader becomes enhantingly captured by this susppenseful Shakespearean tragedy." Hamlet takes place in the early seventeenth century, at the royal castle in Elsinore, Denmark. The theme of the story..."revenge"...becomes Prince Hamlet's obsession. His split personality--one of warm, poetic sensitivity, the other, cruel madness--hypnotizes the reader. Other immortal characters such as Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Horatio, and Ophelia are just a few in the tradition of Shakespeare's unforgettable characterizations.