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Shakespeare: Past Master | 4. Hamlet

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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 The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:01.7

Hello and welcome to Shakespeare Passmaster, our series exploring some of the playwright's

1:06.9

most famous works and what they tell us about history. I'm Matt Alton. In this episode,

1:12.5

we're discussing Shakespeare's exploration of death in Hamlet. Written at the turn of the 17th century,

1:18.3

Hamlet sees the title character haunted, both literally and emotionally, by the fate of his father,

1:23.2

and his own feelings about life and death. Its key characters also include Claudius,

1:27.8

Hamlet's uncle and the New King,

1:29.6

Polonius, his chief counsellor,

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