Essay Archive - Hamlet: An Review and Summary
Hamlet: An Review and Summary
One of the most famous tragedies of Shakespeare�s time was his very own Hamlet. The definition of a tragedy, given by James Thomas in Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Second Edition, is �any deeply serious play with a profoundly unhappy or disastrous ending brought about by the leading character who is compelled by fate, moral weakness, or more recently by psychological maladjustment or social pressures.� Thomas also says that in tragedies �the plots are usually complex in the technical sense, containing a psychological realization on t....
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