Hamlet Context
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- Hamlet Context
- Religion
- Protestantism
- did not believe in purgatory
- problem of the ghost: it could not have been from purgatory in Christian belief
- the protestant reformation 16th century
- working to place the bible in the hands of the people, dissolved catholic monasteries
- Henry VII and Elizabeth I
- Martin Luther and the emergence of Protestantism
- Hamlet attends Wittenburg university, the uni of Martin Luther
- did not believe in purgatory
- the Supernatural
- nightime had no lighting and was often refered to as the witching hour
- the ghost is a supernatural entity which is not classed as a problem
- Catholicism
- the reformation had taken place in Denmark
- Funerals
- suicide could not be approved as a clerical burial
- ophelia's death was a secret burial due to the circumstance
- suicide could not be approved as a clerical burial
- the ten commandments
- thou shalt not kill
- Claudius' murder of his brother
- Hamlets complication between killing Claudius and not can be argued as religious
- thou shalt not commit adultery
- Gertrude did not do this, however her incestuous desires could be seen as blasphemous
- thou shalt not kill
- the book of common prayer
- forbidden to marry your husband's brother - Gertrude
- Protestantism
- 16th century
- the monarchy
- Queen Elizabeth
- unsure of succession due to her being the virgin queen
- she was a successful monarch during her reign with semi-successful foreign policy
- Denmark didn't have a successive monarchy meaning they could chose next king
- explains how Claudius got the throne
- Queen Elizabeth
- women
- Women were still considered to be socially inferior
- property of a woman became men's
- ophelia with Laertes and Polonius
- were to look pretty
- Henry the 8th
- married Catherine of Aragon
- she had been previously married to his brother so he divorced her
- Gertrude and Old Hamlet
- she had been previously married to his brother so he divorced her
- married Catherine of Aragon
- the monarchy
- the Origins
- Saxo Grammaticus
- Gesta Danorum
- introduced hamlet's melancholy
- Amleth - new character name
- Gesta Danorum
- Ur-Hamlet
- Thomas Kyd, play now lost
- Influence from society
- Polonius' Character - William Cecil from the Queens court who had spied everywhere
- Shakespeare son was called Hamnet
- Saxo Grammaticus
- Tragedy
- Seneca the Greek Playwright
- division into 5 acts
- the final act see the resolution of the play being achieved
- hamlet and all of the toxic peoples deaths
- the final act see the resolution of the play being achieved
- explore the aspects of revenge, occult and supernatural
- avenger must go through a moral awakening then die
- division into 5 acts
- revenged tragedy
- included insanity, murder, supernatural, graveyards and ambition
- harmatia - fatal flaw
- hamlets fatal flaw is his procrastination
- catharsis - purification or purging of emotions
- Hamlet is both avenger and vulnerable
- Seneca the Greek Playwright
- Religion
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