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A 5 page paper which examines the play from historical and cultural perspectives. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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readers, while successive generations of critics attempt to explain its enduring appeal and understand the plays true message. However, there has yet to be a consensus as to what
the tragedys meaning is or what Shakespeares intentions were because the way in which the work is perceived is directly connected to the historical and cultural contexts of a particular
time. For example, audiences and readers will respond to certain actions or speeches in accordance with "culturally empowered images, ideas, situations; the contextual loading of words, images, episodes and
characters" (Lye Some Factors Affecting/Effecting the Reading of Texts). Unlike other centuries-old works of literature, the interpretation Hamlet is also strongly influenced by the generations who have read and
analyzed the text before. In other words, preconceived ideas have already been established which may influence the individual comprehension of the drama. According to Professor Martha Tuck Rozett,
when this text is read, there is simultaneously taking place a "subcultural prereading" (Cohen 48). In her criticism, which appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Professor Rozett observed, "The language of
these judgments strongly reflects frequently used verbal formulas in the readers subculture" (Cohen 48). The plot of Hamlet is well familiar even to those who have never read the play
or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg University student, who learns that his father has been murdered and that his
mother, Queen Gertrude, immediately married his uncle, Claudius, who has now become the new king of Denmark. The anguished young man plunges into a severe depression as a result
of his fathers untimely death and the way in which Gertrude betrayed her late husband (and her son) by remarrying without observing a respectful period of mourning. After a
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