Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, a common genre in Shakespeare's day. ... Unless one is willing to claim that Shakespeare was appealing to Elizabethan bloodlust, his point is obvious. ... As the Proverb says, "The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks out" (17:14). Hamlet and Laertes do not exhaust Shakespeare's store of avengers. ... Shakespeare's use of Fortinbras, prince of Norway, clarifies beyond reasonable doubt his own and the play's evaluation of revenge. ...

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By 1590 Shakespeare began to write plays for the stage. ... (III.4.119), "to whom do you speak this?" ... d to us, was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, thereto prick?... er me with your wings, you heavenly guards"(l.116-117). ... He states to Horatio that "it is an honest ghost, that let me tell you" (I.5.201). ...

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"Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage". ... To the audience this could look like the ghost is suggesting that Hamlet feign madness in order to avenge his father. ... Shakespeare uses the line " You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife. ... "Do you not come your tardy son to chide", so he is obviously aware that he is procrastinating. ... Polonius does not like his daughter seeing Hamlet and forbids her to talk to Hamlet. ...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet demonstrates a plethora of complications due to the conflict between reality and appearance. ... I loved you not." ... In order spark interest, Shakespeare added a twist that prolonged the tragic ending to this drama. ... Claudius states, "For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire, And we beseech you bend you to remain Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." ... William Shakespeare's Hamlet is immensely strengthened by his use...

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This is something that Shakespeare leaves fairly ambiguous. ... The Branaugh version takes place too late to have properly fit Shakespeare's vision because they use advanced bolt-action rifles in the movie, which were invented long after Shakespeare died. ... The ghost in this situation is much more statue like. ... This version, like the Olivier, makes use of a type of introduction. ... The film really begins with Act 1 Scene 2, like the Zeffirelli version. ...

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Throughout the sixteenth century, many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, were tragedies that readers could feel strong emotional connections with. ... Even Claudius in Act IV scene five says to Laertes (in regards to killing Hamlet) "Laertes, was your father dear to you? Or are you like the painting of sorrow, a face without a heart?" ...

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Apparent is his dislike for his uncle, especially when he says, "A little more than kin, and less than kind (Shakespeare, I ii 67)"! ... How strange or odd some'er I bear myself (/As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on), /That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, /With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake, /Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As "Well, well, we know," or "There be, and if they might," /Or such ambiguous giving-out, to note That you know aught of me -- this do swear, /So grace and mercy at your most need he...

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Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishaps or those of others; whoever has borne about with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself "too much i' th' sun;" whoever has seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious mists rising in his own breast, and could find in the world before him only a dull blank with nothing left remarkable in it; whoever has known "the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes;" he who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a ...

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I really like this version of Hamlet fil because many things make this film special, the rich sets, the costumes, the interracial superb actors, the humor but most of all the full text version of Hamlet. ... This film uses a lot of richly visual, but its dynamic visual aspects never diminish from the substance of the story or the beauty of Shakespeare's words. ... Dramatic tension is maintained throughout the film, on the other hand in the text you don't get the feel of dramatic tension. ...

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Especially where there is a king, as in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, because a king is in charge of the whole community. ... Just the fact that you are there or that you are saying a prayer is not enough, you have to mean it, otherwise it is just a waste of your time. ... Did you see his face? ... It is things like this that would have made Hamlet a good king. ... Although you may not think of this as a positive quality, you have to remember what was going on at that time. ...

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