Not only did Shakespeare follow Christian theology but also Catholic and Protestant views, which are exhibited by the ghost. In the play the ghost is similar to a demon which threatens Hamlet into giving up his soul. Hamlet could have easily just promised the ghost revenge and kill Claudius but he did not because he wasn’t sure if the ghost was telling the truth.
One thing that made Hamlet similar to other playwrights was that they all derived from the Greeks. Hamlet was highly influenced by writers such as Seneca, Euripides and Sophocles. It is mostly assumed that Seneca’s, Thyestes was the most influential tragedy of the English Renaissance. This being because every well-educated writer wrote in a way similar to Seneca.
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