Context

Question 1

CONTEXT

• 16th century, Renaissance period
• Evidence- man of reason
• Christian faith- Catholics
• Purgatory- between hell and heaven

Answer 1

CRITICS:
“Odd ghost”- John Lenard
David Tennant production- outside of the court, intimate To be or not to be scene, oversexualised Gertrude scene
Freudian view- the uncanny
Ghost representation: Kenneth Branagh - mist, meta theatre, intimidating ghost
John McRae- “Hamlet is becoming a man of action”