Hamlet is one of the masterpieces of William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) located mostly in Danish. Narrated, on a winter night dark, there are spirits who wander in Elsinore Castle in Danish. Spirits were told that King Hamlet's Horatio actually been murdered by his brother, Claudius, who eventually inherited the throne and get a king's widow, Queen Gertrude is. When Horatio and the guards were carrying Prince Hamlet, son of Gertrude and the dead king was to meet with that spirit, he asks Hamlet to avenge him and married his wife. Having said that, the spirits that disappear into the coming dawn.

Prince Hamlet finally decides to avenge his father's death, but because basically he is a contemplative and thoughtful, she put it off, and even sunk in melancholy and an almost insane. Claudius and Gertrude worry about strange behavior prince and try to find out the cause. They then commissioned two friends of Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to watch him. When Polonius, Lord Chamberlain's right hand, bragging to say that perhaps Hamlet's crazy about her daughter, Ophelia, Claudius finally decided to spy on their conversations together. But although Hamlet was mad, he does not appear to love Ophelia. He even told him to become a nun.

One time a group of traveling actors comes to visit Elsinore, and Hamlet had the idea to test his uncle's guilt. He would tell the actors that portray them-scenes kind of killing his father, and of course, when Claudius is guilty, he would react. When the murder scene was staged on the stage, Claudius rose and left the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that the reaction was proved that it Claudius who killed King Hamlet.

Prince Hamlet plans to kill Claudius, just as he found in prayer. Because he thought that killing Claudius at prayer in the state would send his soul to heaven, Hamlet is worried that the effort will revenge in vain. He then decided to postpone the plan, waiting for the right time. Claudius who feel their security is threatened once ordered send Hamlet to England.

Heard a noise from behind the spinning machine's Polonius, Hamlet thought the king was hiding there. He drew his sword and drew it along the plant, and accidentally kills Polonius. Because of this crime, he was exiled to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. However, plans for Hamlet's Claudius is more than exile. He has given a sealed warrant for the King of England to kill Hamlet.

After the death of his father, Ophelia becomes mad with grief and drowns herself in a river. Son of Polonius, Laertes, who had been living in France return to the Danish. Claudius assured that the proper Hamlet blamed for the death of his father and sister. When Horatio and the king received a letter from Hamlet which states that he has passed away due to Danish pirates attacked the ship on its way to England, Claudius' plan to kill Hamlet with a desire for revenge take advantage of Laertes. Laerter will fight with Hamlet in a sports game, but Claudius will be smeared with poison weapons, so Laertes Hamlet will die when he was stabbed. As a precaution, he also sprinkle poison in a cup containing drinking water, which must be taken Hamlet in the first or second round.

Sword fights began. Hamlet wins the first round, but refused to drink from the cup. Unexpectedly, Gertrude who drank himself  and immediately killed by the poison. Laertes finally managed to injure Hamlet, but Hamlet is not killed immediately. Instead, Laertes wounded by his own blade, and after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius who responsible for the death of the queen, she died of poison has been spread over the entire body. Hamlet then stabbing Claudius with the poisoned sword and forced him to drink the poisoned wine down the rest of it. Claudius and Hamlet's death followed after successfully performing revenge.