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Examine how Shakespeare explores the theme of revenge in Hamlet and what the responses of a modern and Elizabethan audience might be to the play.
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Will Higgins Examine how Shakespeare explores the theme of revenge in Hamlet and what the responses of a modern and Elizabethan audience might be to the play "revenge - n. 1 retaliation for an offence or injury. 2 an act of retaliation. 3 the desire for this; a vindictive feeling. v. 1 inflict retaliation for an offence. 2 inflict retaliation on behalf of a person. 3 take vengeance." Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare is a play that very closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theatre. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca, who was Roman, set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge playwrights in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. There were certain stylistic and different strategically thought out devices that Shakespeare...
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