In the opinion of some scholars, Hamlet was really created by William Shakespeare as an autobiographical character, a person who could never make up his mind, liked to make pompous speeches to no one in particular, and was fond of sticking his sword through curtains in case anyone was trying to steal one of his plays that he never wrote anyway. HIP HAMLET There are also those who hold that Queen Gertrude was really Queen Elizabeth, which would have made her Shakespeare's mother, which would certainly revise the theory of the Virgin Queen. This is a stretch for most Englishmen, who are...