Bearing in mind the concerns of the seventeenth century audience, what is the nature and importance of kingship in Hamlet?

-- sophie graham (pinky_perky88@hotmail.com), December 04, 2004

Answers

Some issues you could consider are strength, decisiveness, ruthlessness, leadership, honesty, morality (especially Christian morality), diplomacy, cleverness and deviousness, popularity.

-- catherine england (catherine.england@arts.usyd,edu.au), December 05, 2004.