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Paul Cantor: Shakespeare and Politics

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Shakespeare's Hamlet - A Review

Shakespeare presents the situation which really gets to the heart of the ethical contradictions of the renaissance, thi revenge. Hamlet lives in an incredibly more complicated universe because he lives in the world of the christian after life. We don't know where we're going. The undiscovered born from which no traveller returns. That's what puzzles the will. It's a it's not that hamlet just thinks generically. He thinks about these fundamental christian issues. Is suicide prohibited? Is there life after death? Who goes the genuine question?"

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