Comparing Peter Bray's 'Men, Loss And Spiritual Emergency'

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I chose to read an academic journal by Peter Bray titled, Men, Loss and Spiritual Emergency: Shakespeare, the Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet. In the academic journal, the author Bray writes about how many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, most significantly Hamlet, were written due to being inspired by real life events. Also, he explains how Shakespeare expresses his feelings and thoughts through Hamlet’s soliloquies in Hamlet. In 1596, William Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, died at the age of eleven years old. According to Bray, it is widely speculated that in order to deal with the death of his son, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and other tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet. Gender also is put into play around this time. Shakespeare, being a male,

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