Professor
Dr. Imad Ibrahim
Hamlet,
Price of Denmark for 3rd Year
Hamlet is an Elizabethan play; that is,
written in the Elizabethan period, the reign of Elizabeth I of England (16th
century). The play resembles the play you studied last year under the title Dr.
Faustus in several aspects. Both Hamlet and Dr. Faustus are
tragedies with some comic incidents. Both are written in verse, a fact which
makes both plays difficult to understand. Both plays have typical dialogue
which is not found in the One-Act plays you studied last year too. Finally both
plays have a good list of characters to carry out the action of the stories, in
addition to a clear view of the setting and action and its details
