Ah yes this little play. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play with most productions hitting the four hour mark. I'm sure you all know the plot but here it is anyway. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father who tells him that his uncle killed him in order to usurp the throne and marry his wife. Hamlet spends the whole play complaining about it. The end. Hamlet is not only regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play but also one of the greatest plays of all time. Meh. It's good. The problem with Hamlet is that it's about Hamlet a.k.a. the most annoying character in all of English literature. I spent the majority of this play sighing whenever I read, 'Enter Hamlet', or when I saw he had another navel-gazing soliloquy coming up. 
 I'm genuinely incredibly curious as to why this is considered Shakespeare's greatest play. To me it was just another average one for Shakespeare. Hamlet is really a play for the minor characters. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern steal every one of their scenes, the same can be said for Ophelia, the Ghost and even fucking Yorick. I did overall enjoy Hamlet, it's one of Shakespeare's best constructed plays. There aren't any of the filler scenes that really permeated a lot of the early plays and I found it to be one of the easier plays to read. However, the 1590s equivalent of Holden Caulfield takes some getting used to.