The experience of sadness is a current theme in Shakespeare's play Hamlet. One character who plays a experience of loss and grief is Hamlet himself Throughout the play Hamlet displays various signs of grief, which manifest in his actions, words, and overall demeanor.

In Act I Scene i we see Hamlet grieving the death of his father King Hamlet He wears black sad clothes refuses to engage in the festivities of his uncle's coronation and expresses his deep sadness and longing for his father. He says, "But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two" (I.ii), highlighting the freshness of his grief. Hamlet's grief is intense and overwhelming, and it consumes him throughout the play

Hamlet's grief is not fully permitted or acknowledged by those