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Page 1: Renaissance Element in Hamlet. Introduction Renaissance. Renaissance persons quality

Renaissance Element in Hamlet

Page 2: Renaissance Element in Hamlet. Introduction Renaissance. Renaissance persons quality

Introduction•Renaissance.

• Renaissance persons quality.

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Shakespeare influence on Renaissance

How Shakespeare is influenced by Renaissance?

Shakespeare’s ideas on Renaissance element in Hamlet.

Example: “Hamlet illustrates the religious idea of the renaissance people either go to heaven or hell when they die?”

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James Black view on Hamlet

James Black: his view on Hamlet is that “Hamlet is the superior achievement of the revenge genre, because Shakespeare made the issue turn on the character to be revenger.”

James Black’s view on Shakespeare.

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Renaissance Element:

Revenge.Humanism.Politics.Religion.

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Revenge

Hamlet follows revenge during renaissance period.

“Seneca” who was influential to revenge during renaissance period.

Main aspect in Revenge.Ghost talking to Prince Hamlet about his

death. “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand Of life, of crown, of queen at once

dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my

sin”(Act1, Scene5).

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Humanism

Humanism characterized as a rise in humanist philosophy; self belief; human worth and individual dignity.

How Hamlet recognized as a humanistic man?

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties”

Humanism revealed in Hamlet.

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Politics

There were big political changes taken place during the time that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.

Claudius uses political power.Ghost view on his brother Claudius. “But know, thou noble youth. The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown”(Act 1, Scene 5)Guard Marcellus statement.

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ReligionCharacters influenced by Religious belief.Hamlet religious belief. “Married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my

father”(Act1, Scene 2).Religious mind in ghost.Ophelia’s death.

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