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Who said that there are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand readers?

From Shakespeare's famous saying: "There will be a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers."

Hamlet originally refers to the protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet". It turns out that everyone with different standpoints can see completely different artistic conceptions in the book "Hamlet". This sentence describes a reality in reading, that is, readers have different reading results for the same text.

Extended information:

"Hamlet" is a tragedy written by the British playwright William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1602. The play tells the story of uncle Claudius who murdered Hamlet's father, usurped the throne, and married the king's widow Gertrude; Prince Hamlet therefore avenged his father's death on his uncle.

"Hamlet" is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays and also Shakespeare's most famous script. It has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques, and represents The highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it forms Shakespeare's "four major tragedies".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hamlet