Shakespeare's Ideas in Hauptmann's Drama The Weavers
Hauptmann was always under the influence of the great English playwright W. Shakespeare and returned to his ideas in some of his literary works and plays. In this article an attempt is made to present and to compare the rebellion of the weavers in Hauptmann's play and the rebellion of Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare' work. Shakespeare and Hauptmann understood that there was no way out for both parties. Shakespeare's Hamlet and the weavers in Hauptmann's drama could not exist in the old world. The old world was to be changed and to be destroyed by violence though both of them understood that violence led to the degradation of the human being. Violence and rebellions are doomed to failure, the destroyed world remains the same.