A student makes an observation about Hamlet.The focus on succession to the throne in Hamlet would have been interesting to an Elizabethan audience because their own queen had no heir.

This observation connects the play’s concern with who will inherit the throne to a real issue facing audiences in Shakespeare’s time: Queen Elizabeth I had no heir. Because it interprets the play through its historical context, it uses a historical approach, not a formalist focus on the text’s structure or a feminist or philosophical interpretation.

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