In Shakespeare

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In Shakespeares Time
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Shakespeares Time

• The Globe
• -England
• -1599
• Inside
• Aristocrats
• Tradesmen
• Artists
• People with jobs
• Queen Elizabeth

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The GlobeAudience

• Their hobbies
• Cards
• Tennis
• Fencing
• Blood sports
• Dancing
• Offensive Entertainments
• Theatre
• EXCITING

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Going to the Globe
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkBy
William Shakespeare
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Publication 1600-1601.Setting
Danish castle of Elsinore in the
late Medieval period
Background of the Play
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Elizabethan Beliefs

• The marriage of a widow to her brother-in-law is
  forbidden.
• Ghosts are real.
• Suicide is considered an unforgivable sin for
  which the victim is condemned to hell or
  purgatory.
• A suicide victim cannot be buried in holy ground.

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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
Theres something rotten in the state of Denmark
. . .
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• King Hamlet Gertrude Claudius
• Hamlet
• Polonius (Kings advisor)
• Laertes Ophelia (Hamlets love
  interest)
• HoratioHamlets friend
• Rosencrantz and GuildensternHamlets school
  acquaintances
• King Fortinbras and Young Fortinbras (King of
  Norway and his son)

(King Hamlets brother)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
Prince Hamlet returns home from university to
discover that his father is dead and his mother
has married his uncle Claudius.
And now Claudius has declared himself king.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
As if thats not bad enough, the ghost of his
father appears to Hamlet . . .
He tells Hamlet that hes been murdered by
Claudius
and demands that Hamlet get revenge.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
What should Hamlet do?
Instead of jumping into any action, Hamlet broods
over his options
and then starts acting very strange.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
He starts talking in riddles.
He acts cruelly to Ophelia, a girl who loves him.
Hes suspicious of everyone.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction
Why is Hamlet acting like this?
Is he insane? Or faking insanity?
Will he make up his mind to take action?
Should he kill his uncle?
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Three Plots

1. Main plot
2. Romance with Ophelia
3. Looming war with Norway

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Themes

• Revenge
• Mortality
• Appearance and Reality
• Corruption
• Madness
• Doubt

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The Characters
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Hamlet

• Tragic hero
• Educated
• Renaissance man living in a Medieval world
• A man of thought rather than action

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King Claudius

• An effective, capable ruler-- hes able to
  handle matters of state
• Power-hungry
• Lustful
• Greedy

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Queen Gertrude

• Lustful
• Truly loves her son
• Unsuspecting, clueless
• Suspects that Hamlet is mad due to the death of
  his father/the remarriage of his mother

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Horatio

• Educated
• Hamlets equal in intelligence
• Hes the only person Hamlet trusts
• Actually, everyone trusts him

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Polonius

• Talks too much
• Spies on Hamlet and even his son, Laertes
• Uses his daughter as bait to trap Hamlet

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Ophelia

• The only truly innocent person
• Hamlets love interest

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

• Educated but NOT as intelligent as Hamlet
• Old school friends of Hamlet
• Hamlet compares them to sponges!

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Laertes

• Rash, bold, bad-tempered
• Cares deeply for his sister and father
• Plots with Claudius (Vengeful)

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The Play Within the Play

• Murder of Gonzago
• is a play used to
• catch the conscience of the king.

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Look for the following

• Soliloquies
• Hamlet
• Claudius
• Allusions
• Irony
• Flashbacks
• Comic Relief
• Foreshadowing

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Interpreting Hamlet

• The victim of external difficulties?
• The sentimental dreamer?
• The victim of excessive melancholy?
• The victim of the Oedipus complex?
• Motivated by ambition?
• Misled by the ghost?

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• Hamlet Annotations
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• Directions As you read, you will need to
  annotate in your book.
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• 1st Color Highlight the lines that illustrate
  a literary
• device and write the device in the margin and
• brief explanation if necessary.
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• 2nd Color Highlight the lines that pertain to
• theme and write the theme in the margin.
• Revenge
• Mortality
• Appearance and reality
• Corruption
• Madness
• Doubt

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• 3rd Color For each soliloquy, highlight the
  lines
• and summarize in the margin.
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Beginning of each ACT

• Write how much time passes during the act (ex.
  Act I 24 hours 12AM 12AM)

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Beginning of each SCENE

• Bullet point important events that happen
  (include specific names and places)