An ideal summary of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' for higher-level students of Shakespeare as well as for the casual reader. Included within is a collection of summaries of each scene and act in varying degrees of detail. In total there are 27,665 words of plain English summaries, which are broken down into 20,453 words of highly detailed, line-by-line summaries, 5,503 words of briefer summaries that give general overviews of each scene, and 1,709 words of even more general summaries of each of the five acts. These summaries offer a far greater degree of detail than most, if not all, other summaries available online.

Hamlet, prince of Denmark, must seek revenge against his uncle Claudius for the murder of his father, King Hamlet, whose ghost returns to earth to reveal the crime. Torn between doubtful introspection and his duty to act, Hamlet is thrown into seeming madness and his plan for vengeance is ruptured by the tragic forces of fate. From the heights of philosophical eloquence to the depths of bloody violence, the play pulls the audience with it on its journey through the life and mind of one of Shakespeare's greatest and most complex characters.