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A brief intro to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (Hurray!)

Meet Will William Shakespeare ( )

Elizabethan England World was opening up to new ideas Old concepts being questioned: Divine Right of Kings, Chain of Being, Divine Providence Individuality and notions of free will gaining momentum

Divine Right of Kings Political and religious doctrine of political absolutism Assures authority and legitimacy of monarch Monarch derives right to rule from the will of God Monarch accountable only to God As a result, killing a king = eternal damnation

Great Chain of Being Divinely inspired universal hierarchy ranking all forms of higher and lower life God Angels Humanity Animals Plants Minerals

Great Chain of Being Cont’d Within the chain, people are sorted according to higher/lower values (ie Priests and Clergymen are high up, whereas paupers and manual labourers are at the bottom of the list) Political implications: civil disobedience caused the ‘chain to be broken’, and would have ‘dire consequences in other realms’ Disobedience = sin against God

Divine Providence Belief that God’s will controls everything, and everything happens for a reason Attempts to explain natural disasters, and other bad situations as ‘God’s plan’

Conventions of Shakespearean Tragedy Explores the balance between human choices and fate, based on character flaws Hamlet is our tragic hero: Tragedy Review Worksheet time!

Quick Plot Overview Hamlet (the prince of Denmark) is in a funk: his father has mysteriously died, and his mother married his uncle (father’s brother) soon after the funeral. Fortunately, Hamlet’s dead father’s ghost shows up to give Hamlet some bad news: he was murdered. The play revolves around Hamlet’s internal struggle with how to avenge his father without damning himself eternally, and on the external struggle to punish his uncle (Claudius) without taking down his mother (Gertrude) as well Throw in a subplot with the Prince of Norway (Fortinbras), a bizarre, possibly-incestuous love triangle between Ophelia, Hamlet, and the male members of Ophelia’s family, and you’ve got a classic tragedy! One of Shakespeare’s most frequently quoted soliloquies is in this play: To be / Or not to be?