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What Aspects of Hamlet are likely to have been of particular interest to Elizabethan and early Jacobean audiences, and how different might a modern audience's response to the play be?
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What Aspects of Hamlet are likely to have been of particular interest to Elizabethan and early Jacobean audiences, and how different might a modern audience's response to the play be? Hamlet in a way is a play that any audience of any time can relate too. People can sympathise with Hamlet, on an individual level. The play's power to activate complex, multiple perspectives on a single issue or event resides in its sensitivity to the competing prejudices and sympathies of a diversely minded audience. The play has a different impact on every person therefore Hamlet himself is a character people could relate too. Elizabethan attitudes were incomparable with societies current attitudes. Shakespeare lived in a time of great change and excitement in England a time of geographical discovery, international trade, learning and creativity. It was also a time of international tension and internal uprisings that came close to war. It is no...
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