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Hamlet

Hamlet. Mr. McClellan’s Sixth-Grade Shakespeare for The Wednesday Wars Team 6-1. Major Roles. Hamlet Claudius & Gertrude Ophelia Horatio Polonius & Laertes. Hamlet. Prince of Denmark Melancholy, bitter, and cynical Often indecisive and hesitant

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Hamlet

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  1. Hamlet Mr. McClellan’s Sixth-Grade Shakespeare for The Wednesday Wars Team 6-1

  2. Major Roles • Hamlet • Claudius & Gertrude • Ophelia • Horatio • Polonius & Laertes

  3. Hamlet • Prince of Denmark • Melancholy, bitter, and cynical • Often indecisive and hesitant • Full of anger and disgust for his uncle and mother

  4. Claudius & Gertrude • Queen of Denmark and Hamlet’s mom • Deeply loves her son • Seeks status and love • King of Denmark and Hamlet’s uncle • Calculating, ambitious politician

  5. Ophelia • Hamlet’s on-again, off-again girlfriend • Sweet and innocent young girl • Manipulated by the men in her life (Hamlet, dad, brother) • Falls into madness

  6. Horatio • Hamlet’s best friend and old college buddy • Loyal and helpful to Hamlet • Remains alive to tell Hamlet’s story

  7. Polonius & Laertes • Ophelia’s brother • Passionate and quick to action • Chief adviser to the King • Father to Laertes and Ophelia • Pompous and conniving

  8. The Plot • At Elsinore Castle in Denmark, Claudius has inherited the throne from his dead brother and married his widow, Queen Gertrude. • Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrude and the dead king, is brought by Horatio to see a ghost haunting the castle. The ghost claims to be his father’s spirit and orders Hamlet to seek revenge against his murderer, Claudius. • Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’s death, but, because he is contemplative and thoughtful by nature, he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent madness.

  9. The Plot • Claudius and Gertrude worry about the prince’s erratic behavior and attempt to discover its cause. • Polonius suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia. • Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love Ophelia.

  10. The Plot • A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet has the players perform a scene closely resembling his father’s murder. If Claudius is guilty, he will surely react. • When the moment of the murder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. • Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that killing Claudius while in prayer would send Claudius’s soul to heaven, Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decides to wait. • Hamlet goes to confront his mother. Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behind the tapestry, Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime, he is sent to England.

  11. The Plot • In the aftermath of her father’s death, Ophelia goes mad with grief and drowns in the river. • Polonius’s son, Laertes, who has been staying in France, returns to Denmark in a rage. Claudius convinces him that Hamlet is to blame for his father’s and sister’s deaths. • Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes’ desire for revenge to secure Hamlet’s death. Laertes will fence (sword-fighting sport) with Hamlet, but Claudius will poison Laertes’ blade so that if he draws blood, Hamlet will die. As a backup plan, the king decides to poison a goblet, which he will give Hamlet to drink should Hamlet score the first or second hits of the match.

  12. The Plot • Hamlet returns to Elsinore just as Ophelia’s funeral is taking place. Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that he had in fact always loved Ophelia. • Back at the castle, he receives Claudius’s orders to arrange the fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes. • The sword-fighting begins. Hamlet scores the first hit, but declines to drink from the king’s proffered goblet. Instead, Gertrude takes a drink from it and is swiftly killed by the poison. • Laertes succeeds in wounding Hamlet, though Hamlet does not die of the poison immediately. First, Laertes is cut by his own sword’s blade, and, after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius is responsible for the queen’s death, he dies from the blade’s poison. • Hamlet then stabs Claudius through with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink down the rest of the poisoned wine. Claudius dies, and Hamlet dies immediately after achieving his revenge.

  13. Famous Quotes • “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (Act I, scene iv) • “Murder most foul.” (Act I, scene v) • “Brevity is the soul of wit.” (Act II, scene ii) • “What a piece of work is a man!” (Act II, scene ii) • “The play’s the thing.” (Act II, scene ii)

  14. Famous Quotes – Part 2 • “To be or not to be: that is the question.” (Act III, scene i) • “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (Act III, scene i) • “O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.” (Act III, scene ii) • “I must be cruel, only to be kind.” (Act III, scene iv) • “Good-night, sweet prince,And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” (Act V, scene ii)

  15. Shakespeare in Song . . . • “Hamlet” from Red, Hot, and Blue (Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser)

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