Pare che la risposta giusta sia la seconda. Amleto, infatti, è una figura leggendaria della mitologia scandinava. Non sto certo qui a riportarvi l'intera storia (se siete interessati il link su Wikipedia è http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amleto_%28mitologia%29), ma è una nozione che arricchisce l'intera storia, ed è interessante sapere che, a differenza del personaggio shakesperiano, l'Amleto "reale" visse e regnò.
Considerato che io consiglio sempre di leggere l'intera produzione teatrale di Shakespeare, non posso che continuare a rivolgere l'invito a leggere, anche e soprattutto, l'Amleto. Ritrovare la sua follia, l'espediente dei teatranti, l'amore sofferto tra Ofelia e Amleto, i vari piani di approfondimento, religione, filosofia e politica, la psicoanalisi. Nell'Amleto c'è tutto, e anche di più.
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About one of the most famous tragedy by Shakespeare have been written blue streaks and staged a lot of theatrical and cinematographic performances. Everybody knows the story of the Prince of Denmark, of Ophelia, the famous "To be or not to be" and the wrong combination of this line with the skull's scene at the cemetery. There is a lot to say about this tragedy, beginning with the doubt if Hamlet really existed or not. I don't know about you, but I am really interested in understand how much is true in these great plays, if that Prince really existed, if Shakespeare created this story that was completely made-up or if he recalled it from historical sources.
Looks like the right answer is, in part, the second one. Hamlet, in effect, is a legendary figure of Scandinavian mythology. I'm not relating here the whole story (if you're interested, the Wikipedia link is this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_%28legend%29), but it's a fact that enriches the story, and it's interestinf to know that, unlike the Shakesperian character, the "real" Hamlet lived and ruled.
I always suggest to read every Shakespeare play, and more I do for Hamlet. His madness, the expedient of Players, the love of Hamlet and Ophelia, the different planes of in-depth analysis, religion, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis. In Hamlet there is everything, and much more.
