Summary Of Love And Friendship In Hamlet '

In the lecture “Love and Friendship in Hamlet”, David Bevington discusses how the love and friendship of Hamlet and Horatio extends the reader’s knowledge on the general understanding of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The major topic of Bevington’s lecture is Love and Friendship between different characters in the play, and how they differ from each other. The first relationship that contributes to the reader’s understanding of Hamlet Bevington mentioned was between Hamlet and Horatio. To the reader’s knowledge, the relationship between Hamlet and Horatio was distinct. To Bevington, the relationship between Hamlet and Horatio becomes “valorized” in the play. Bevington stated,” friendship is the only part in the play where Hamlet could feel that he can count on human experience.” As clearly announced, Bevington believed that the relationship between Hamlet
Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle and stepfather, and also known as the King of Denmark. Claudius was revealed that he was the true cause of Old Hamlet’s death. Bevington stated that Claudius is a good politician who drops names in everything he says. For example, in act 1, Laertes asked for approval to be sent off to France. Claudius dropped his name about 6 times. Although Claudius was known to be the murderer of Hamlet’s father, Bevington mentioned that he is also a good politician. In order to be a good politician, Claudius understands that there needs to be “course – trading involved in being a capable administrator.” Claudius also picked a specific time for the election as King to be taken in place which was when Hamlet was still in Wittenberg, and that it would’ve taken weeks to bring Hamlet home, which makes him a sneaky, yet intelligent politician because this way, Claudius would have enough time to line things up which resulted him in winning the