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Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

" The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance list since 1879.

It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as " the world's most filmed story after Cinderella ".