Shakespeare deserves a master of the melancholy theme and an unsurpassable monument in the history of English literature. Instead of taking personal confusions as Romantic poets do, the melancholy poetics in Shakespeare's plays reveal his profound concerns about contemporary thoughts, natural environment and historical memory. Melancholy is like the foggy weather that nobody in England could immune from it no matter they were the aged or young, men or women. Shakespeare integrated Ficino's idea of genius melancholy to establish the most typical melancholy prince of Hamlet in literary history, and adopted the Little Ice Age, the plague, the wilderness, and the shipwreck as tools for inner contemplation to express natural feelings of the characters through soliloquy and dialogue. When intertwining wars, political and religious contradictions with worldly worries, Shakespeare depicted the historical picture of that melancholy era in those magnificent epical plays.