Prince Hamlet is not a Playwright in"Hamlet"by William Shakespeare

Prince Hamlet is not a Playwright in"Hamlet"by William Shakespeare

                       Hamlet was the prince of Denmark but not a playwright by profession at all .He was a scholar, learned and intellectual person who could give the main theme of the play as was his requirement but not to  direct the play on stage in the way an expertise do. This play-within-play further helps the dramatist to reveal his own theories of playacting through the tongue of Hamlet.

                      Having vast knowledge of field the playwright writes as, “many of your players do”, “as town-crier spoke lines and split the ears of the groundlings”. “It offends me to the soul” and “I would have such a fellow whipped”. Such expressions could not be come out of Hamlet who belongs to the royal family. He was incapable for directing the play so skillfully like killing the king without proof. Both neither were in his nature nor might profession.He do for the welfare of his masses as was his mind set.

                        Only an expertise have courage and confidence to address to the professional actors imperatively as,” speak the speech, as I pronounced to you.” ,  “suit the action to the world, the world to the action ,you overstep not the modesty of  nature.” , “But not too tame neither” but not an unprofessional though he is learned and intellectual.

                        Words are spoken spontaneously as, “O reform it altogether” as he used to say in his routine in which he is insisting, commanding and directing. Besides what to speak, how to speak ,what to convey, what to hide ,what to express, what follows the nature and what against the  nature solely great play director can guide.

                        Hamlet is a mouthpiece of Shakespeare in play-within-play.  It reveals autobiographical elements but unconsciously. Otherwise he never seems mix personal life with his professional life almost in all his plays.