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With particular reference to the language of the play, discuss the development of Hamlet’s revenge in the first three acts
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English Coursework: With particular reference to the language of the play, discuss the development of Hamlet's revenge in the first three acts. Shakespeare's Hamlet belongs to a genre of plays known as Revenge -Tragedies popular in Elizabethan England, it shows how Hamlet's life is transformed when his father is murdered, and in the first three acts the audience sees how his revenge develops towards the three most important people in his life: Gertrude, his mother; Claudius, his step-father and uncle; and Ophelia, the woman he loves. From Hamlet's very first lines it is clear that he dislikes Claudius, and his mother's "o'er hasty marriage" to him. It is also obvious that he is desperately unhappy and angry at how close he is to Claudius now: "A little more than kin and less than kind"; "... I am too much in the sun." This word play showing that he doesn't consider himself Claudius's son. Hamlet...
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