Read for school in May 1987.
The thing that is hard to see at that age is that the delay is the plot. Hamlet has the information and the opportunity early and spends four acts not using them, and the play is about why.
Everyone arrives knowing the famous speech. Almost nobody arrives knowing how funny the gravedigger scene is, or how much of the play is people performing sanity at each other.
I came back to King Lear two years later and found it the harder play.
