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Discuss Hamlet's attitude to death and the afterlife, giving an indication as to how both contemporary audience and modern audiences might view it.
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English Coursework Essay Discuss Hamlet's attitude to death and the afterlife, giving an indication as to how both contemporary audience and modern audiences might view it. "Hamlet" deals with situations, which require a single-minded response. However, by the end of the twentieth century a large percentage of people were unfamiliar with church worship and words of the bible, which makes modern interpretation of it much more difficult which Elizabethan and Jacobean audience of Shakespeare's time on the other hand had strong beliefs in religion, includes specifically the afterlife. Hamlet shares the views of the contemporary audience and we must therefore try to understand his religious perspectives in the way that contemporary audiences would have done. To the modern audience the religious ideas and beliefs of Hamlet may seem strange 1 "There is never an ideal production of Hamlet; any interpretation must limit. For our decade I think the play will be about the...
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