... originally taken from the Greeks when the Romans conquered Greece, and with it they took home many Greek theatrical ideas. Some of Seneca's stories that originated from the Greeks like Agamemnon and Thyestes which dealt with bloody family histories and revenge captivated the Elizabethans. Seneca's stories weren't really written for performance purposes, so if English playwrights liked his ideas, they had ... ...

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1. In what ways is Act 5 Scene 2 a fitting climax to the play? Shakespeare wrote his most popular play Hamlet using Aristotle's principles and Greek tragedy, most notably Agamemnon as a foundation. Hamlet was probably written around 1602, during the Elizabethan Era a period of intellectual and artistic upheaval, tentative and feisty environment and political disarray. The story introduces us to ... ...

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