¡Descarga Hamlet The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages, the play y más Ejercicios en PDF de Teatro solo en Docsity! Hamlet: The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages, the play has a distinct turn-of- the-17th century vibe. (It was written between 1599 and 1601). There are several allusions to the Protestant Reformation, which wasn't initiated until around 1517. Denmark (like England) was a Protestant nation at the time Shakespeare wrote the play and Hamlet seems to be the quintessential Protestant kid —he goes to school in Wittenberg, Germany (where Martin Luther hung out) and he's also skeptical of the Ghost, who claims to be his father's Purgatorial spirit. (Protestants rejected the notion of Purgatory as mere "superstition"). There's also a whole lot of play-acting in Hamlet, including a performance of The Murder of Gonzago, which is put on by a troop of traveling players (actors) who drop by the castle to put on a little show. That's just the kind of thing that would have gone down in Elizabethan England. The whole thing takes place at Denmark's royal court. The dynamic is high-powered and manipulative. "Tragedy" is right there in the title. But Hamlet isn't just any tragedy—it's a classic revenge tragedy. Revenge tragedies were all the rage in England during the late 16th and early 17th century, influenced by Seneca's (c. 4 BC - 65 AD). Elements to call this play “revenge tragedy”: -Secret murder: King Hamlet didn’t die because the bite of a snake, he was killed by his brother, because his ambition of becoming King. Claudius poured poison in the king’s ear while he was sleeping in the garden. -The murdered ghost’s king visit a relative: King Hamlet “visits” his soon and tells him the truth of his suspicious death. The ghost is demanding, too —he suggests he's stuck in Purgatory and needs Hamlet's help if he wants out, so he asks young Hamlet to "remember" him and to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" in other words, the ghost wants Hamlet to kill Claudius so he, the ghost, can go to heaven. -Hero Wants Revenge: Check. Naturally, our boy Hamlet wants to take some serious revenge on his murdering, incestuous uncle. (He also wants to lay into his mom but the ghost orders him to leave her out of it.) Here's the thing that separates Hamlet from other "Revenge Tragedies", it takes Hamlet for-ever to exact revenge. Not all tragedies end in death, but all of Shakespeare's tragedies do. Here's one more thing that Shakespeare's tragedies seem to have in common: despite the death of individuals at the end, the plays' conclusions also seem to promise the restoration of political order. How's that possible in Hamlet if the entire royal court's been wiped out? Well, Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, conveniently arrives and claims the Danish throne. Hamlet is a dark play full of uncertainty and suspicion. From the very first line, "Who's there?", we're dumped into a world of uncertainty, anxiety, and the very real possibility of ghosts. Hamlet is written in a combination of verse (poetry) and prose (how we talk every day). But, as Polonius would say, there's method in the madness.
