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Two reasons: great lines and great characters.

Actors love being able to say lines that are beautiful and sit well in the mouth. They are easier to remember and say than awkward badly written lines. Shakespeare wrote some of the best lines for actors to say.

Actors also love the challenge of Wrestling with a part that is not simple. Everyone wants to play Hamlet because he is a character full of contradictions, and everyone wants to try to get them all right.

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