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What, in your opinion, were Hamlet's reasons for delaying the killing of the King in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'?
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Q. What, in your opinion, were Hamlet's reasons for delaying the killing of the King in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'? A. Revenge tragedies have captivated audiences worldwide long before the time of Shakespeare. In reality Hamlet - supposedly a Shakespeare original - has its roots in the celebrated Danish story of Amleth from the twelfth Century. Critics have also drawn many conclusions that 'Hamlet' was a re-make or Shakespeare's version of Thomas Kyd's famous 'The Spanish Tragedy'. Like 'The Spanish Tragedy' and the many other revenge tragedies of that time, Hamlet too consisted of the stock conventions of revenge tragedies like the ghost, the crime done in secret, the play-within-the-play, a male lead who stimulates madness and a heroine who goes mad and commits suicide. Yet there was and is something very different about the tale of 'Hamlet'. This play has managed to keep audiences and critics alike questioning themselves and...
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