Hamlet By William Shakespeare

Hamlet

Prologue:  Hamlet is a play about revenge. It was written in the late sixteenth or very early seventeenth century, at a time when there was a fashion for revenge plays, such as  The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, which almost certainly had an influence on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet is remarkable compared with other revenge plays because although Shakespeare shows us no characters who actually debate the morality of exacting revenge, the whole play from  start to finish sets up a discussion on the issue. Other revenge plays tend to take it for granted that, following a murder, the victim’s relatives will exact vengeance, but  Shakespeare makes us wonder whether this is the right course of action.

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