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thought he continued to write for some time. He died on April 23, 1616.
As the precise dates of many of Shakespeare’s plays are still in doubt, critics hold different views to the division of his dramatic career. But generally his dramatic career is divided into four periods.
The first period of Shakespeare’s dramatic career was one of apprenticeship. He wrote five history plays: Henry Ⅵ, PartsⅠ,Ⅱ,andⅢ, Richard Ⅲ , and Titus Andronicus; and four comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and Love’s Labour’s Lost.
In the second period, Shakespeare’s style and approach became highly individualized. By constructing a complex pattern between different characters and between appearance and reality, Shakespeare made subtle comments on a variety of human foibles. In this period he wrote five histories: Richard Ⅱ, King John, Henry Ⅳ, PartsⅠandⅡ, and Henry Ⅴ; six comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; and two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies. The tragedies of this period are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus. The two comedies are All’s Well That Ends Well and Mearsure for Measure.
The last period of Shakespeare’s work includes his principal romantic tragicomedies: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest; and his two final plays: Henry Ⅷ and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Hamlet is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art. The story comes from an old Danish legend. Under Shakespeare’s pen, the medieval story assumed a new meaning.
2.2 Introduction about Hamlet优-文^论,文.网
http://www.youerw.comHamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage. The play was probably written around 1601, based on a widespread legend in northern Europe. The play is about Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, who tries to avenge his father’s murder.
The scene of the play is laid in Denmark. Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, widowed by the sudden death of the King, within two months marries the late king’s bother Claudius, who thus becomes the new King. Prince Hamlet, son of the late king, returns home from the University of Wittenberg. He suspects foul play on the part of Claudius, his uncle. Then his father’s ghost appears to him at the castle of Elsinor, and confirms Hamlet’s suspicion. He undertakes to avenge the murder. To dull Claudius’ vigilance, Hamlet pretends to be an emotional disturbance due to his passion for Ophelia, daughter of Polonius. At this moment, a company of players visits the castle, and Hamlet has a play acted, which resembles the late king’s murder. The guilty Claudius starts up in fear before the play ends, and goes out. Gertrude sends Hamlet to her chamber, where he reveals Claudius’ baseness and expresses his indignation at her hasty marriage, which renders the queen heart-broken. Then Hamlet becomes aware that he is being overheard in the conversation. Thinking it is Claudius that is in hiding, he runs his sword through the arras but finds the eavesdropper thus killed to be Polonius. The king now determines to destroy Hamlet. He sends Hamlet to England, intending to have him killed there. But pirates capture Hamlet and send him back to Denmark again. Heart-broken at the death of her father, poor Ophelia goes mad and then is drowned in a stream. Hamlet returns just at the time of her funeral. In the graveyard he has a quarrel with Laertes, Ophelia’s brother. Laertes vows to avenge the death of his sister and father. With him Claudius conspires to do away with Hamlet. The king arranges that Laertes is to challenge Hamlet to a friendly duel and kill him with a poisoned rapier. In the duel, Laertes wounds Hamlet but is himself struck with the same poisoned weapon. Before death, Laertes reveals the plot. The queen, at this moment, has drunk from a poisoned cup intended for Hamlet. Hamlet, in a passion, stabs the King, and then dies through his poisoned wound, giving the election to the crown to Fortinbras of Norway.
With Shakespeare's unique creative approach, a lively, unique personality image of Hamlet show in our eyes. Hamlet is a prince with humanistic ideas. He has “The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye tongue, sword,” he is “Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form.”[ACT Ⅲ, SCENE 1] However, he is dithery and delayed. His melancholy is the reason that makes the image has a monumental artistic charm.
3 Analyze the Character of Hamlet
Since Hamlet was first performed in the 17th century, countless readers greatly admired this Honourable Prince of Denmark. Between the lines in Shakespeare's Hamlet, people are searching for revenge figure of the prince and have shaped the Hamlet’s image of their own. His father was died and mother takes new husband. His uncle usurped the throne. When it all gets turned around and round, Hamlet is almost lost the courage to survive. The world, this life, for he had no nostalgia and the sadness pushed him to the edge of life and death. After his dead father's ghost had appeared, Hamlet has known the truth. However, he did not revenge impulsively. He meditated on the revenge plan with his anxiety and hesitation, so that the time for revenge was delayed. Finally he and his enemy perished tighter. From the image of Hamlet, we can see the human vulnerability and the brutality of the environment is so contrary but complementary to each other. Ultimately, when Hamlet faced with the war, the main characters of him---depression and delay were expressed before us.
3.1 Character Analysis from the Relationship
As we all know, Hamlet main focused on the relationships of family, love, and friendship. In Hamlet there are complicated characters and contradictory relationship between the three types of ethics. However, through these complicated relationship we can analyze the main character of Hamlet---depression and delay.
3.1.1 Between Son and His Dead Father优-文^论,文.网
http://www.youerw.comIn the varieties of complex relationships, the relationship between Hamlet and the ghost of his dead father is the most important. His father's sudden death led him to change the views of the whole world. Together with his uncle usurped the throne and his mother remarried others, we can see Hamlet is filled with depression and anger. He should have revenge, for the throne, for his mother. However, he also thinks that if he revenges for those, he will be the same as his uncle, a person who is full of evil ideas. Then he has delayed his revenge, and his inner is full of contradictions of revenge.
Before Hamlet met his father’s ghost, at first, as the representative of humanitarianism, Hamlet did not believe the existence of the ghost. Even he was depressed and had suicidal thoughts before he met the ghost. In the play, in front of the king and queen, he showed depression, anger and hostility. We noted Hamlet in particular mentioned that,
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,
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