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The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the…

— Damien Chazelle

We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's…

— Norah Vincent

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later,…

— Anthony Hopkins

“It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.”

— Alain de Botton

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

— Rafe Esquith

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they…

— Marion Cotillard

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

— Dakin Matthews

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of…

— John Barth