A Critical Analysis of Hamlet's Character and Motives in Sha

             A Critical Analysis of Hamlet's Character and Motives in Shakespeare's
             In a tradition of literature and remarkable for its exacting and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods have been said to represent the most brilliant century of all. These years produced a gallery of authors of genius, some of whom have never been surpassed, and conferred on scores of lesser talents the enviable ability to write with fluency, imagination and nerve. From one point of view, this sudden renaissance looks radiant, confident, heroic – and belated, but all the more dazzling for its belatedness. Yet from another point of view, this was a time of unusually traumatic strain, in which English society underwent massive disruptions that transformed it on every front and decisively affected the life of every individual. In the brief, intense moment in which England assimilated the European Renaissance, the circumstances that made the assimilation possible were already disintegrating and calling into question the newly won certainties, as well as the older truths that they were dislodging. This double ness of new possibilities and new doubts simultaneously apprehended, gives the literature its unrivaled intensity.
             The Renaissance brought about many great writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Hoby, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and most notably William Shakespeare. Sir Philip Sidney was born on November 30, 1554, at Penshurst, Kent. He was educated at the Shrewsbury School and at the Christ Church, Oxford. He retired to Wilton, the estate of his beloved sister Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and there he wrote for her entertainment a long pastoral romance in prose called Arcadia. At some uncertain date, he composed a major piece of critical prose that was published after his death under two titles, The Defense of Poesy and An Apology for Poetry. Sidney's Astophil and Stella is the f...

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