When you read Hamlet, or any other Shakespearean play, the first thing to remember is that the words are poetry.

Make sure you read Hamlet when you're older.

Then he gets up at 9, and while taking a bath listens to tapes (currently, of himself reading "Hamlet," to learn the lines).

"No one would argue that there is only one way to read 'Hamlet."'

Spock was sitting on the floor of his aunt's library, reading Hamlet.

My father was 89 years old when I encountered him reading "Hamlet."

'Why are you reading Hamlet?' he asked.

"If these things must be done, then let everyone read Hamlet."

Unfazed, the dog then begins reading Hamlet.

As you read Hamlet, keep in mind these questions: What are the obligations of a king to his people?