Essay Lab

Hamlet is a Revenge Tragedy. You could do a comparison contrast type paper, comparing Hamlet to one of the following plays, which are also considered Revenge Tragedies and were written and staged during the same time as Hamlet: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, or The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John FLetcher. The first instances of revenge tragedy plays were staged in ancient Greece and Rome. You could also use one of those to compare to Hamlet; Seneca's Thyestes is considered possibly the most influencial ancient revenge tragedy upon the English Renaissance.

I think that one of your challenges right now is that you might need to find some aspect or basis upon which to launch your comparison of both protagonists.  I hear you correctly when you are...