THE SIMPSONS - HAMLET

This fragment of The Simpsons is based on the famous work of Shakespeare Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601.

The  Shakespeare original play has as the main theme the revenge of the prince hamlet after the murder of his father, the king of Denmark, by his brother Claudio. Other themes of the play are the incest, the madness and the betrayal.

The Simpsons in this chapter make a summary of the play in a comical way, but they do not lose the essence. As in the original play, Hamlet look for his revenge and he gets it, but the history end with all the characters in the play died. In the Simpsons fragment change some names of the characters, and the last scene (which in the original play is the most dramatic scene) represent the dies of Laertes and Hamlet but in a very comic way.

     See from minute 15:05

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 In this fragment appears an important element in the play: Hamlet (in this case Bart) want a theatre company to represents the murderer of his father to discover that Claudio is the murderer of his father.