William Shakespeare's Hamlet:
Trapped Within the Past The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare encapsulates a modern man placed within an inferior time. Examined under the historical lens in this play weaves the time the play was written and the time it was set in, religious views, historical events, figures, and the authors background, revealing why looking back on the past can be beneficial for the future and depict lessons to carry forward. Observing history through play is still beneficial to this day because one can recognize the influences and changes that have occurred and has altered the world know today. The author’s past is an obvious inspiration that he drew upon. Considering William Shakespeare's tragic past of his son, Hamnet’s death which drove his mother (). (). In 1596, while either on tour or in London Shakespeare received news that his eleven year old son, Hamnet was ill. Shakespeare only hurried home once he received news that the boy he essentially abandoned in his infancy has become worse in condition. Once Shakespeare had arrived his son Hamnet may have already died. Unlike most other grieving writers, Shakespeare did not publish elegies or recorded any of his feeling towards the occurred events. (). “Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
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(Play it is based off upon). based on a Norse legend composed by Saxo Grammaticus in Latin around 1200 AD.
Another play being a major inspiration would be Ur-Hamlet, a play which William Shakespeare’s play company the Chamberlain's Men purchased it and performed it (). The title Ur, in Ur-Hamlet a German prefix which means "primordial" or in other words the earliest