Shakespeare's 1603 tragedy — following Prince Hamlet's paralysis after his father's murder by his uncle — the most performed play in history and the supreme literary treatment of consciousness, indecision, and mortality.
Creates the literary representation of consciousness — Hamlet's soliloquies are the most complete representation of a thinking mind in Western literature before the modern novel; 'To be, or not to be' is not just a suicide meditation but the first sustained literary examination of the relationship between consciousness and action.
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