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Is Hamlet a misogynist? If so, why? "Frailty, thy name is woman." This aphoristic declaration of Hamlet in his first soliloquy puts forward the labyrinthine question - Is Hamlet a woman hater? This is, in fact, one of the riddles of the problem play, which the critics over the last few centuries tried to answer, but they succeeded only in making it more entangled, producing more controversy. I think, this is a question on which variable judgments are inevitable, but I will try to focus on a more convincing goal, expressing my own opinion. I feel inclined to touch at the background, which brings the charge of misogyny against Hamlet. His father died an unnatural death and his mother married his uncle with surprising haste. Hamlet could not convince himself how his mother could marry a 'lecherous villain' Claudius within two months of his father's death, who was a god-like man....

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