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Hamlet
The prince epitomises our inner struggle: kill, live, hesitate, die. What is the right thing to do? What is the point?
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King Lear
Lear's is an outer struggle, heroically defying all-powerful nature, but broken on a wheel of fire by personal tragedy.
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Macbeth
The combination of vaulting ambition, supernatural conspiracy, and a steel-hard wife is enough to undo any man, however honourable. Blood and chaos ensue.
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Othello
A noble warrior brought low by the workings of gratuitous evil; just how dark is our own dark side?