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6. Name the time period: Collier - "Violated Justice" and Shaftesbury - "Ultimately moral"

  • Renaissance
  • Restoration
  • Late 1900s
  • Gothic Revival

7. Name the time period: the play focused on the ghost and was inspired by mad courtiers and ladies in real life court

  • Restoration
  • Victorian period
  • Renaissance
  • Gothic revival

8. What were the views of Hamlet during the restoration era?

  • Setting was religious and Hamlet was an allegory for religion
  • Setting was 'mileu', tragic decorum, Shakespeare was primitive
  • The dramatisation of the ghost, Ophelia's madness as hysteria
  • Violence and madness

9. From what does Hamlet's "deep melancholy" grow from?

  • Sadness from losing his father
  • Out of his love for Ophelia
  • Disappointment in Gertrude
  • Hatred for Claudius

10. What was the reception of Hamlet in the renaissance?

  • Hamlet was censored due to the puritan commonwealth (1640 - 1660)
  • Ophelia's madness was defended due to the 'desperate situation'
  • It was not censored and received globally
  • Hamlet was view as a 'hero'

11. What changed about the reception of Hamlet in the 1900s?

  • Hamlet was a heroic figure
  • There was a focus on the major characters in the play
  • The play "violated justice"
  • TS Eliot: "overly enigmatic"

12. What were the renaissance era concerned with?

  • Studying the characters as real people
  • The women
  • Madness, violence and the dramatisation of insanity
  • The decadence of Hamlet