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Source: ChatGPT Shakespeare wrote his play Hamlet during the English Renaissance. Even though the play was written between 1599 and 1601 1 , it comprises a number of scenes that illustrate various distorted beliefs. This essay aims to appreciate the play through the lenses of psychology and literary criticism and examine the profound role of Prince Hamlet's madness, procrastination, existential crisis and other Freudian defence mechanisms in shaping the trajectory of the play. The term tragedy refers to a dramatic play that unfolds a disastrous downfall with several poignant scenes recurring . 2  Hamlet aligns well with the conventions of tragedy as the play ends in massive bloodshed. Based on Greek theatrical conventions, the ultimate objective of a tragedy is to achieve an effect of purification and to evoke a sense of pity and sympathy from the side of the audience. 2  In Hamlet, the prince struggling to overcome his late father's death, ends up behaving in an erratic way...