to contemporary audiences. Notably, the play explores the conflict between an individual and their society resulting from awareness by the individual of the corruption of their state. Secondly, Shakespeare seeks to depict tensions of the sixteenth century surrounding the uncertainty of life and death, from both conventional and humanist views. Further, Hamlet explores the moral ambiguity of revenge which leads to conflict between action and inaction through Shakespeare’s integration of medieval and…
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