Revenge Conventions in Hamlet as compared to Elizabethan Conventions
Date Submitted: 04/23/2004 03:27:26
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2604 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2604 words)
Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare that very closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theater. 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, basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The …
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