into the
heart
ofnature.
Having
inherited
the
religious
dualist
assumption
that the
death of
the body
does
nothing to
relievethe
soul of
its
responsibilities,
Shakespeare
was making
full use
of the
latest
achievements
of the
religiousand
philosophical
development
in his
time to
explore
the most
important
questions—human
nature,
thequestion“to
be or not
to be”and
the
significance
of life
which are
very much
concerned
with all
peoples
onearth.
As a
dramatist,
Shakespeare
