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, […]
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 him […]
HAMLET’S STOICISM The Renaissance rediscovered the minor,unassimilated schools of ancient thought: Cynism, Epicureanism, Skepticism, and,especially,Stoicism. Indeed,from Shakespeare’s time through the nineteenth century,”philosophical” meant in English primarily […]
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 […]
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 […]