Morality in Hamlet

Hamlet’s conflicting concern over religion,

Eg. Suicidal hints in his soliloquy
- speaking to R/G “what a piece of work is man”
- “the quintessence of dust”
- “to die to sleep, to sleep per chance to dream.”

Or he is concerned with the morality of killing Claudius whilst he repents.

Hamlet is a product of his time: conflict over medieval and renaissance values

Hamlet’s inner conflict over revenge: mind or body

1  “the play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”

    Resort to violence and rashness: killing of Polonius and “Now will I drink hot blood”

    Lack of morality of other characters inspires Hamlet’s own reduction of morality and similarly in RT Vindice is reduced to murder

      Conversely in the Revenger's Tragedy, religion is less concerning,
e.g. Vindice mocks the thunder comparing it to simple stage effects: “when thunder claps heaven likes the tragedy

   No moral conflict over revenge:

In the Italian society some forms of revenge were countenanced by the laws

“now let me burst;  I’ve eaten noble poison”

“shine through blood/ When the bad bleeds then the tragedy is good”