FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Anglo Saxon
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Renaissance
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Late Middle Ages
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Modern
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages (14th and 15th centuries, or 1300 to 1499) in and around (mostly) the royal palace in Elsinore, a city in Denmark.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like most of Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet is not set in a specific year or even decade. Shakespeare does not specify in the text, and there are few context clues. Generally, Hamlet is thought to be set some time in the 1300s or 1400s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Not only his plays on English history, but Macbeth, Hamlet and Lear draw on history or legendary history as it was carried forward from the Middle Ages. The story of Hamlet was first written down around 1200, and was in oral tradition before that.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thus it is that Shakespeare’s output reflects all three styles: in the tragedies, for example, Othello is Baroque, Hamlet and King Lear are Mannerist, and Romeo and Juliet is Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare lived during the height of the English Renaissance, and this is clearly reflected in his plays and poems. Like all writers and artists, he was influenced by what was going on around him, and he would adopt the common ways of thinking into his work.