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Explore how Shakespeare examines the theme of revenge in Hamlet The theme of revenge is examined throughout Hamlet on many different levels and situations. Shakespeare explores this revenge through characters, language, imagery and how the audience would have perceived the revengeful situations. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet at the end of the Elizabethan period, beginning of Jacobean period. It was not considered to be part of new genre as revenge tragedies were already a well-established genre. Shakespeare therefore only had to follow the main traditions in order to successfully write 'Hamlet'. According to the accepted characteristics revenge tragedies should have included ghosts or supernatural beings, violence, sex, bloodthirsty revenge for family honour and bloody carnage. Most revenge tragedies end in a bloodbath killing off all the main characters apart from the loyal best friend. Hamlets complex plot is advanced, compared to most revenge tragedies as it included many subplots intervened into one play....

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