ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tragic Hero
9 Mar 2016
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Engl 2p80 hamlet in relation to the conventions of the revenge tragedy continued - 2 versions of hamlet: hamlet was published three times, 1603, 1604, 1623 (in the complete works edition supervised by a number of people who knew. The combined text is a combination of the 1604 and 1623 edition and the other one in the anthology is just the 1603. Hamlet in relation to the conventions of the revenge tragedy. The presence of a villain and a counter revenger. Certain characteristic uses of the plot requirement of delay. His madness may just be a rouse, a role he plays in order to gain time and opportunity in order to kill claudius. He has a tragic perspective of life from the plays very beginning. In his irst soliloquy he perceives the process of universal corruption as a process of degradation, the degrading of repetition.
