Hamlet Historical context
- Created by: CaitlinA02
- Created on: 17-01-20 12:50
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- Historical Context
- women
- Despite their being a woman on the throne women lacked any control
- Ophelia and Gertrude
- they were the property of their father and later their husband
- Ophelia and Gertrude
- Despite their being a woman on the throne women lacked any control
- Elizabeth
- Was a protestant
- Mary Queen of Scots
- After the death of her husband she failed to follow proper mourning procedures
- She married the man who was thought to have killed her husband
- Though to be Gertrude
- Spies
- Lord Burghley, Elizabeth's chief minister is said to have sent spies to watch his son in Paris
- thought to have influence Polonius
- Because of Elizabeth's protestant beliefs Pope Pius V set up a spy network to undermine her power and have fuel to replace her
- Elizabeth
- Was a protestant
- Potentially Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
- Elizabeth
- Lord Burghley, Elizabeth's chief minister is said to have sent spies to watch his son in Paris
- Revenge
- Ideas of blood feuds
- Laertes and Polonius
- Hamlet and Old Hamlet
- Fortinbras and Young Fortinbras
- Ideas of blood feuds
- Humanism
- A philosophical movement of the time that placed man above all else
- Philosophical nature of Soliloquy 3.1
- A philosophical movement of the time that placed man above all else
- Religion
- Protestant vs Catholicism
- catholic ideas of purgatory explored with Ghost
- Claudius repentance like Catholic ideas
- James I
- Confusion over who would be the next king could influence 5.2
- Elizabeth had no heirs
- Supernatural
- The audience were skeptical of ideas like Ghosts/Witches in the Era
- women
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