This document is a paper about William Shakespeare's play Hamlet being considered a revenge play. It provides context about the play, defines what a revenge play is, and analyzes several key elements from Hamlet that illustrate it as a revenge play, such as Hamlet seeking to avenge his father's murder after being instructed to do so by his father's ghost. The paper concludes by summarizing the plot of Hamlet and how Hamlet ultimately takes his revenge against Claudius at the end.

1. WELCOME
Name : Pina K. Gondaliya
Enrollment No : 2069108420200012
Paper : 1 . Renaissance literature
Email ID : pinagondaliya09@gmail.com
Roll no. : 25
Topic : Hamlet As Revenge play
Sem : 1
Submitted to : Department of English
MKB University.

2. Hamlet : William Shakespeare
 The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually
shortened to just Hamlet, was written by William
Shakespeare sometime between 1599-1602.
● It is arguably one of his most famous tragedies.
● The lines from Hamlet's monologue in act three that
begin “To be, or not to be..” have been studied and are
widely known .
● Even in Shakespeare’s own lifetime, Hamlet would have
been performed multiple times and consider remarkably
influential.

3. Definition of Revenge Play
● A Revenge play can be defined as drama.
● Protagonist seeks revenge for the bloody actions of
the antagonist.
● The revelation of the murder or crime comes to
protagonist through superficial appearances such as
ghosts.
● In the process of seeking revenge, the main
character might witness insanity, murder, suicide,
philosophical debates, etc.

4. Hamlet : A Revenge Play
● The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas kyd is considered
to be a refined of revenge tragedy.
● In Spanish tragedy, father hieronimo takes revenge
for his son Horatio's death.
● We can see that Hamlet takes revenge for the
murder of his father.
● It is a story concerned with murder, sudden
violence and the slower but more deadly reaction to
that violence.

5. Features of Revenge Play
● It deals with some crime murder heinous and most
unnatural.
● Some near relative or intimate person is called upon
to avenge the murder.
● It is the Ghost of the dead who reveals the crime
committed.
● Sacred duty to take revenge is accepted and revenge
is taken with disastrous consequences.
● There is much that is thrilling and sensational use of
fighting, of violence, madness even incest.

6. Illustration from Hamlet
● Murder of king Hamlet
by Claudius.
● The ghost of king hamlet
demands; ‘Revenge his
murder’.
● Ghost reveals that Claudius
murdered him in order to
steal his crown and his wife
● The ghost makes hamlet
promise to take revenge.

7. ● Play Within Play :
● we realize that
Hamlet plans to put
on a play that
depicts the death of
his father, to see
weather Claudius is
really guilty, and the
ghost is really to be
trusted.

8. ● Hamlet gets a
chance to
murder Claudius
but refrains as
Claudius is
praying.

9. ● While Hamlet is telling the true story
about the king’s death to Gertrude,
polonius is listening them behind the
curtain to know about Hamlet’s madness.
● Hamlet thinks the person who is behind
the curtain is Claudius, so he stabs him.
● Death of Ophelia, Gertrude, Guildenstern,
Rosencrantz.
● Fight between Hamlet and laertes.

10. ● Laertes will use a poison -tipped sword during a
fight with Hamlet and Claudius will have poisoned
drink at ready.
● Finally Hamlet revenges his father when he stabs
Claudius and force him to drink the poisoned
wine.
● Hamlet himself then dies from the wound recived
during the fight with laertes.
● The revenge plot is thus conclude.
● At the end only Horatio is live.

11. ● Reference
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