Category: Hamlet

Above the river splitting through campus, I stop for a moment, resting my arms upon the bridge’s cold, iron railing. Spring reaches out from skeleton trees in buds of leaves and wildflowers, hovering over a river reflecting whatever light the moon has left to give. With eyes open to the cloudless sky, I notice the…

INTRODUCTION In this essay I shall identify the necessary skills, resources and expertise required of the actor in the performance of Hamlet. The purpose of this essay is not to arrive at a definite consensus on what the play is about or address the various thematic, political and morality elements. I shall make use of…

Hamlet is an English play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1599 and 1601. The play tells the story of Hamlet, and the events that transpire after he vows to avenge his father, who was killed by his uncle Claudius. Throughout the story Hamlet displays extreme amounts of rationality, from his inability to kill…

Throughout Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, loss is a fundamental concept that is present throughout the whole play. There are a variety of losses that the characters of the play suffer from, where this essay will be used to discuss the vast variety of losses. The motif scales from the loss of sanity, to the loss of…

The ghost in Hamlet is a crucial part of the story that not all characters can see. He tells Hamlet of his father’s murder and encourages him to get revenge. The role of the ghost in Hamlet is to add a tense setting, add unpredictability, and ignite the conflict. In Act I scene I, Horatio…

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet’s and Ophelia’s love is indirectly hinted at many times through the way they talk and address each other, the way people carry themselves when around the two, and how Shakespeare himself gives indications to their past relationship. There are eight types of love according to the Greeks. Eros, Philia, Storge,…

What separates Hamlet from other revenge plays (and maybe from every play written before it) is that the action we expect to see, particularly from Hamlet himself, is continually postponed while Hamlet tries to obtain more certain knowledge about what he is doing. This play poses many questions that other plays would simply take for…

This paper aims to discuss the possibility of prince Hamlet being, in fact mentally ill, or wheter he was just such a bright mind that all the intended madness could have been staged and well-planned beforehand. The first significant problem arises with the fact that William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet with such a great…

After reading both Trifles and Hamlet more than once, there have been new themes that seem to catch my attention. Although there are themes such as death and revenge in both plays, but the most vital one would be the oppression of women in both plays. Considering that these plays were written a long time…

“Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” (Hamilton). You and I, we both cry, we both bleed, and we will both die. One critical lens that sparked my interest the most while reading William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was the postcolonial lens, especially because of the play’s parallelization with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. This lens is relevant…