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Critical approaches to Hamlet

From the growing madness of Prince Hamlet, to the violent ending to the constant reminders of death, to, even, more subtly, the notions of humankind and its structures and the viewpoints on women, Hamlet evokes many things that would recur in what is widely regarded as the first piece of Gothic literature, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, and in other Gothic works.

John Evelyn saw the play in 1661, and in his Diary he deplored the play's violation of the unities of time and place.



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