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In “Claudius Villein King of Denmark�, by David Shelly Berkeley, the criticism of the mythological approach begins with the description of two classes of men that Shakespeare usually portrays in his plays, the gentles and the base and in this case.Claudius is portrayed as a base. Claudius later is also described by Hamlet as “a murderer and a very wicked man� (Berkeley 15) but what Hamlet is really saying is that he is a “murderer and a bastard because villain and villain…both denote base� (Berkeley 15) which also is associated with “bastard birth� (Berkeley 15). It then begins to mention how disturbing it is to Hamlet of the idea of a villien king of Denmark and how more disturbing the idea of his own mother being married to a villiein, because as every night goes by she becomes less and less his mother in his (Claudius’) hands.She in all the wickedness in the court belongs to “the villain class...stewed in corruption� (Berkeley 13) along with Claudius.......

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