Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part I: Crash Course Literature 203
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========== Hi I’m John Green, this is CrashCourse Literature
and today we’re going to talk about the greatest Dane of all, Scooby-Doo. No, it’s
Hamlet. So Hamlet is either a 16h or 17th century
play, we’re not positive. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was written by William
Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602 and it’s considered by many to be Shakespeare’s
best work, even better than Timon of Athens or Cymbeline.
Mr. Green, Mr. Green, I know Hamlet’s like super famous and important and everything,
but isn’t it basically just like a super long play about a guy who never makes up his
mind? Well, Me From The Past, some argue that Hamlet
doesn’t have trouble making up his mind so much as he has trouble executing his vision.
More specifically, executing his uncle. The...