Babies are weighed within the first few hours after birth. The weight is compared with the baby's gestational age and recorded in the medical record. A birthweight less than 2,500 grams (5 pounds, 8 ounces) is diagnosed as low birthweight. Babies weighing less than 1,500 grams (3 pounds, 4 ounces) at birth are considered very low birthweight.
Sure, tragedy is right there in the title. But Hamlet isn't just any tragedyâit's a classic revenge tragedy. Revenge tragedies were all the rage in England during the late 16th and early 17th century, influenced by Seneca's (c. 4 BC - 65 AD) Roman adaptations of Greek tragedies.
Hamlet has in effect become a ghost (Garber 498). Polonius will continue to insist that Hamlet is mad with love for Ophelia, but we find out that she has started playing stupid games against Hamlet on Polonius' instructions, refusing Hamlet's letters and remaining inaccessible to him (II.i.105f).