The scene with the Gravediggers (Hamlet, V, i , 166 – 184 ) strikes particularly because it includes both comical and melancholy elements side by side […]
The Actors The actors arrive at Elsinore (II, ii) and immediately Hamlet asks the main actor to recite a melodramatic speech about the killing of Priam […]
Yet revenge tragedies were popular at the Globe theatre. The excitement of watching someone, who had been grievously wronged and whom the law would not help, […]
Hamlet’s Melancholy and Death Since the beginning of the play Hamlet has been presented as a melancholic person; in fact, Claudius and Gertrude try to convince […]
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark exhibits tendencies that can be aligned with Stoic philosophy, particularly in his struggle to reconcile emotion with reason, […]
It is 4-or 5- year-old children who are generally affected by the Oedipus complex Someone is affected by the Oedipus complex if they strongly love the […]
When Hamlet’s mother’s hasty remarriage had led Hamlet to the disillusioned view that ” frailty, thy name is woman”, Ophelia‘s affection might yet have restored his […]