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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