Title of the book is Hamlet

It was a common tradition during the sixteenth and seventeen centuries to borrow ideas and stories from earlier literary works. Shakespeare could have taken the story of Hamlet from several possible sources including a twelfth century latin history of Denmark a prose work by the french writer. In the original version Hamlet's uncle murders the prince's father, marries his father and claims the throne. The prince pretends to be weak to throw his uncle's off guard then manages to kill his uncle in revenge. But Shakespearean version varies making his Hamlet philosophical minded prince who delays taking action because his knowledge of his uncle's crime is so uncertain. Shakespearean Hamlet can be studied as a revenge play influenced by Secena the father of this genre. Shakespeare has revived the Secena tragedy in this sense it is a Reassionance play. Here Shakespeare uses the scene of violence killing, murdering and bloodshed as Secena used in his tragedy to satisfy the need of Elizabethan audiences. This revival made it Reassionance play. As a Reassionance character Hamlet is suffering from the hangover between the medieval belief of superstition and reason the belief of Reassionance. But as a Reassionance student he doubts on the appearance of the ghost. Hanging on the verge of scientific and superstitious belief is one of the features of Reassionance man.