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PART ONE – Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet IT would seem at this late day that all that could be said about the play of Hamlet has been said and often repeated. I now claim the honor of being the first discoverer and announcer of the fact that in Hamlet can be found allusions and statements…

Enter Barnardo and Francisco. Barnardo is the first to speak and he says, Who’s there? Francisco is reluctant to speak and insists that Barnardo makes himself known first. Francisco says, Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself. There appears to be some hostility between the two since they don’t exactly know whom they are speaking…

When Elizabethans went to see “Hamlet,” their experience would have been hugely different compared to the experience somebody today would get if they saw a modern-day performance. The play would have been performed “in the round”, inside an open-air theatre. The audience would stand, smoke, drink, and talk and shout throughout the performance. On stage,…

In literature, there has been countless antiheroic characters, from Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo”s Nest and Allie Fox in The Mosquito Coast, to others as famous as Robin Hood and … By literary definition, an antihero is the hero of the play or novel, but has negative attributes which separate him or…

Hamlet is a play that very closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theatre. All revenge tragedies originally came from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks, came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca, who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas…

In William Shakespeare’s time women had a very uncertain place in society, differing greatly from the standards of today, which were brought about partly by the Women’s liberation and suffragette movement in the early 20th century. In Elizabethan times women were seen as subservient to men, insignificant and as many have argued second class citizens,…

Act one of Hamlet is an excellent introductory act. Shakespeare establishes atmosphere, by introducing the major characters, the role of the supernatural, the revenge plot, the love plot, and the contrast of the Fortinbras plot, as well as Hamlet’s fiegned madness. Through his unique writing style, Shakespeare sets us up for the rest of the…

Maybe Shakespeare’s Hamlet is rightfully named after the star of the play. After all, he is not only the key character, but the driving force behind most of the questions that are asked about human nature. Hamlet has many traits that contribute to the success of his chacter and the success of the play in…

William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet has been one of the most controversial works of all time. There have been so many criticisms on this book and opinions on what the main theme behind the play is. Many themes have been proposed such as revenge, sex, reality and jealousy. I myself believe that there is no one…

The play begins on the outer ramparts of Elsinore castle. It is late and Francisco, a guard, is on duty waiting for Bernardo to relieve him from his watch. Francisco is nervous because the previous two nights he and Bernardo have seen a figure who appears to be the ghost of the recently deceased king…