Consider the context of the play.

1. The Renaissance
1350 - 1660
-What characterised this period ?
- Hamlet was written in the beginning of the
17th Century - during the Renaissance period -

2. What was the Renaissance?
• The period after the Middle Ages.
• The beginning of the “modern
world”
• New interest in old stuff, like
Greece & Rome
• Changes in perceptions about
art, religion, literature,
education, social and cultural
values

3. Where did the renaissance Start?
• Began in Italy
• Later spread north to
Germany and England

4. The ENGLISH Renaissance
• Renaissance man was
interested in the early
Christian period
• The figures in Renaissance
art were more realistic.

5. Renaissance
• Interested in Greek & Roman
culture (“the classics”)
• Use of perspective in
paintings
• Believed in humanism
• Used critical method of study

6. What’s Humanism?
Hint: What word is inside the word?
• Idea started in the Renaissance that
people have value, worth and autonomy
• Middle Ages = Only God can do good
(and bad)
• Renaissance = Humans can do good
and can control their own lives
• Liberal arts education (still here today)