Which fact about hamlet would be most important to a student analyzing the play through a historical lens

With regards to the historical origins of the play it is interesting to point out that the play was very likely inspired by the Danish story Life of Amleth, which made part of the larger Gesta Danorum, written by the Danish author Saxo Grammaticus during the 13th century. Many of the plot elements of Shakespeare's work come from the Danish story such as a prince that pretends to be mad, who k ills a spy that is hiding nearby (Polonius), whose mother drops her mourning quite fast to rapidly marry another man who turns out to be the k iller of his late father and even the prince foiling a conspiracy to execute him by manipulating two other people to be executed in his place. There is also the historical context of the play during the time of its inception: the fierce, ongoing conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism. Hamlet's ghost tells his son that he is in Purgatory because he died without receiving his last rites, two very Catholic doctrines. Also, Claudius can be seen as a metaphorical personification of the Catholic Church, he per verts monarchy for his own personal benefit just as the Catholic Church - according to Protestant beliefs - pe rverted Christianity in order to gain extreme social, economic and political power. Furthermore, Hamlet takes place in Denmark, a very Protestant country, and he studies at the University of Wittenberg, the exact same college where Martin Luther launched Protestant Reformation. Finally, the fact that the play insists on the importance of preserving the social order and purge it from corrupting elements stems from the fact that Shakespeare lived in an era that had been preceded by the great suffering and upheavals of the Wars of the Roses.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.