Who Is To Blame In William Shakespeare's Play Hamlet?

The Shakespearean drama “Hamlet” is the central work in Western literature and inspired many creative writers into reshaping literature in today’s day. With its popularity, it has become the most written and analyzed play that retains intensity and complexity to move its readers. The prevalent theme of revenge makes it the most well-known tragedy worldwide evoking countless critical opinions of the characters. But before Hamlet, speculation arose that in Shakespeare’s earlier life he had traveled and worked as a schoolmaster as well as being a “lawyer, soldier, sailor, actor, printer” (Wells, pg.1) not necessary in that order of course. It was also conventionally assumed that William had also attended the “Kings New school in Stratford” (Wells, Pg.1), which had some part in influencing him into becoming one of the most well-known authors in modern day. Before being a well-known poet and author, William was working in London “as an actor and writer” (Wells. …show more content…
Throughout his wide-ranging experiments in literature, Wells explained that he became “tentative in his early explorations of tragic than of comic form” (Wells. Pg.1). It wasn’t until about the 1600 that William returned into the direction of tragedy and completed his tragic territory with Hamlet. It is said that Shakespeare could have written the play within the five years after his son’s death Hamnet, marking the dark tone throughout the play. With his skillfulness, he had created a distinctive formula of revenge within the play that gives the reader a unique type of suspense. Shakespeare has perfected revenge by intertwining two revenge stories within one and reveals that the cost of revenge is one’s