HAMLET SOME ASPECTS OF THE PLAY HAMLET as a Revenge Tragedy Elizabethan dramatists did not first invent HAMLET Behind the play versions of the tale are known which go back at least to the thirteenth century but in all versions the theme is the same revenge Elizabethan playgoers had a peculiar delight in this theme and there are many revenge plays Most of them follow a pattern just as in these days the crime and detective thriller runs to type In the thriller there is first the crime The masterm
A Critical Analysis of Hamlet Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of his time Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era and had to write for an Elizabethan audience and theater By todays standards this was no picnic in the park Under those circumstances he wrote some of the greatest works in history These works still popular today prove him to be a consummate dramatist Shakespeare knew how to craft dramatic scenes full of external and internal conflict and emotion