Hamlet Literary Context
- Created by: CaitlinA02
- Created on: 17-01-20 12:16
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- Literary context
- Tragedy
- Revenge
- Popular in the renaissance era
- Hamlet is similar to the 'Spanish tragedy'
- Performed 10 years earlier
- also had a ghost asking his son to avenge his death
- Opens up a second revenge tragedy with Laertes and Polonius
- Features
- Hamartia that causes the tragic death of the hero
- Takes place over five acts
- Shakespeare's tragedies
- His first tragedies often were violent, E.g 'titulus andronicus'
- then moved to pity tragedies e.g Romeo and Juliet
- Final tragedies like Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello explored madness of an individual
- Revenge
- Machiavellian
- Characters who act in a 'Machiavellian' way act unlike a noble
- Based on the works of Machiavelli
- Tragedy
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