'TO BE OR NOT TO BE', HAMLET, NEUS & YOLANDA WATSON

Yolanda at hotel & The Watsons on Nyhavn canal

The Watsons are still in Copenhagen. They have suffered a terrible day. A real tragedy has hit their hearts and they are absolutely destroyed.

On the one hand, Yolanda Watson has injured her leg and she has stayed at hotel without visiting the city, on the other hand Neus Watson has disappeared in the middle of the Nyhavn canal.

Nyhavn is a 17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen. Stretching from Kongens Nytorv to the harbour front just south of the Royal Playhouse, it is lined by brightly coloured 17th and early 18th century townhouses and bars, cafes and restaurants. The canal harbours many historical wooden ships.

The Watsons were sailing by boat when they have realized that Neus Watson was not with them. Quickly, they have asked for help and they have phone the police that has arrived in five minutes.

After hours and hours of intense searching, Neus Watson has not appeared and the family has started to think the worst things and to live the hardest feelings. They do not want to lose their hope but they must admit news is not as good as they liked.

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The Watsons are a strong talk-active family. They have not got secrets, or at least they think it. They have been exposing some theories knowing that Neus is a great fan of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The Little Mermaid.

While The Watsons were worried about Neus, Yolanda was at hotel studying some English grammar without knowing anything about this tragic disappearance. First, she has read two chapters of her new book The Secret of Oldstone Hall. Later, she has reviewed some modals verbs (Must & Should) and finally, she has been reading about the origin of European surnames and the Saxon genitive.

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The Grandma is sad with Yolanda and Neus's news and she has thought in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet because her situation is a real tragedy, it is a question of to be or not to be.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play with 30,557 words.

Neus Watson

Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers -from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch- and has been described as the world's most filmed story after Cinderella.

The story of Shakespeare's Hamlet was derived from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum, as subsequently retold by the 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

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Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe Shakespeare wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet we now have. He almost certainly wrote his version of the title role for his fellow actor, Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time.

In the 400 years since its inception, the role has been performed by numerous highly acclaimed actors in each successive century.

Three different early versions of the play are extant: the First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines and entire scenes missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny.

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One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action but which others argue is a dramatisation of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, while feminist critics have re-evaluated and attempted to rehabilitate the often-maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

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Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative, cautions the New Cambridge editor, Phillip Edwards. The earliest date estimate relies on Hamlet's frequent allusions to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, itself dated to mid-1599.

The latest date estimate is based on an entry, of 26 July 1602, in the Register of the Stationers' Company, indicating that Hamlet was latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne his servantes.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

Much of Hamlet's language is courtly: elaborate, witty discourse, as recommended by Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 etiquette guide, The Courtier. This work specifically advises royal retainers to amuse their masters with inventive language.

Written at a time of religious upheaval and in the wake of the English Reformation, the play is alternately Catholic or piously medieval and Protestant or consciously modern.

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Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character, expounding ideas that are now described as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical. For example, he expresses a subjectivistic idea when he says to Rosencrantz: there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Sigmund Freud's thoughts regarding Hamlet were first published in his book The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), as a footnote to a discussion of Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus Rex, all of which is part of his consideration of the causes of neurosis.

Freud does not offer over-all interpretations of the plays, but uses the two tragedies to illustrate and corroborate his psychological theories, which are based on his treatments of his patients and on his studies.

Hamlet is one of the most quoted works in the English language, and is often included on lists of the world's greatest literature.

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One of the things that makes Hamlet

unique among Shakespeare's characters

is his courage to face up

to the darker elements of his personality.

Kenneth Branagh