1. Renaissance Element in Hamlet

2. Introduction
Renaissance.
Renaissance persons quality.

3. Shakespeare influence on Renaissance
How Shakespeare is influenced by Renaissance?
Shakespeare’s ideas on Renaissance element in Hamlet.
Example: “Hamlet illustrates the religious idea of the renaissance people either go to heaven or hell when they die?”

4. James Black view on Hamlet
James Black: his view on Hamlet is that “Hamlet is the superior achievement of the revenge genre, because Shakespeare made the issue turn on the character to be revenger.”
James Black’s view on
Shakespeare.

5. Renaissance Element:
Revenge.
Humanism.
Politics.
Religion.

6. Revenge Hamlet follows revenge during renaissance period.
“Seneca” who was influential to revenge during renaissance period.
Main aspect in Revenge.
Ghost talking to Prince Hamlet about his death.
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin”(Act1, Scene5).

7. Humanism
Humanism characterized as a rise in humanist philosophy; self belief; human worth and individual dignity.
How Hamlet recognized as a humanistic man?
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties”
Humanism revealed in Hamlet.

8. Politics
There were big political changes taken place during the time that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
Claudius uses political power.
Ghost view on his brother Claudius.
“But know, thou noble youth.
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown”(Act 1, Scene 5)
Guard Marcellus statement.

9. Religion Characters influenced by Religious belief.
Hamlet religious belief.
“Married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father”(Act1, Scene 2).
Religious mind in ghost.
Ophelia’s death.