Doctor Faustus vs. Hamlet

Gavin Mace Hist. of Theater and Dance The representation of Gods, spirits, death, and the afterlife has always been prevalent in drama. The thought of not being able to know what comes after our own lives scares many people and that is why it has been represented so much in theater. These phantoms have appeared in plays since the beginning of drama. Plays like “The Bacchae”, or “Everyman”, and even more modern plays such as “…

…in “Hamlet”. These plays bring up questions in the human mind, such as what happens after death, and that is most likely why spirits are represented in so much theater. No one knows what comes after death, and that scares a lot of people. Even though these plays may not be right, they at least give people an idea of what may come after our lives, and it asks the audience, “what do you believe”?