Introduction

Farah Karim-Cooper reveals what the playwright’s famous tragedy tells us about how death and mortality were viewed in the Tudor era

Written at the turn of the 17th century, William Shakespeare’s //Hamlet// sees its title character haunted – both literally and emotionally – by complex feelings about death. As Farah Karim-Cooper explains, the playwright was tapping into the era’s wider confusion about mortality and spirituality

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