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Character Name
Hamlet
Gender
Male
Adult
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
Elizabethan Era; Denmark
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Analysis
Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. In recent months, his father was murdered by his uncle, Claudius, who then married his mother, Gertrude, and assumed the crown. One night, his father’s ghost appears to him, order his son to avenge his death. Hamlet, normally the lead in his
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