The topicality of the given article is "Hamlet" is written by William Shakespeare who was the greatest English poet and playwright. Hamlet is the first tragedy in Shakespeare's series of great tragedies which is believed to be published in between 1601 and 1603. This play is one of his successful, perfect and best plays ever known. Hamlet centers on the problems arising from love, death, and betrayal, without offering the audience a decisive and positive resolution to these complications for Hamlet himself is ambiguous and the answers to these problems are complex. It was a common tradition during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to borrow ideas and stories from earlier literary works.