"Other works of the human spirit equal Hamlet, none surpasses him. All the majesty of the gloom is in Hamlet. A grave opening from which a drama comes out, this is colossal. Hamlet is, in our view, the capital work of Shakespeare." Victor Hugo
Hamlet, a Danish prince, must avenge his father: the murderer of the latter is none other than his uncle Claudius, who inherited the throne and married the widow queen. To act freely, Hamlet pretended madness, including against Ophélia, the one he loved. But as uncertainty and delay accumulate in the face of this duty of vengeance, moral and political reflection on the issue of death, oblivion, truth and identity is committed, making it one of Shakespeare's most poignant and complex tragedies.