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hamlet

hamlet. Ap literature & composition. Interesting stats. As of the year 2000, there had been 75 film versions made of Hamlet —the second most commonly adapted play in all of Shakespeare’s work.

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  1. hamlet Ap literature & composition

  2. Interesting stats • As of the year 2000, there had been 75 film versions made of Hamlet—the second most commonly adapted play in all of Shakespeare’s work. • Hamlet himself is the most dominant character in all of Shakespeare. His 1,506 lines of speech in the play account for 39% of the play’s lines. • Hamlet has been accused of being a sexist play in that of the play’s 3,834 lines, only 330 (8.6%) of those lines are spoken by women whereas the remaining 3,504 (91.4%) lines are spoken by men. • Taken from The Shakespeare Miscellany

  3. superlatives • The greatest play ever written. • The most important play ever written. • The most complex and interesting character (Hamlet) in all of literature. • The most “linguistically innovative” work in the English language. • The most legitimately interpretable play ever written. • One of the (no one can claim certainty here) most commonly alluded to texts in history. • And lastly, considered by many colleges and professors to be the most important text for an incoming freshman to have read (I’m not making this up).

  4. Harold bloom • "We read to reflect and to be reflected. … You can make of the play ‘Hamlet' and the protagonist pretty much what you will, whether you are playgoer or reader, critic or director, actor or ideologue; push any stance or quest into it and the drama will illuminate what you have brought with you."

  5. purpose • Our goals for Hamlet are three-fold. • Further practice with the analysis of difficult poetry (speeches from the play). • The collection of 36 unique answers to the most general AP prompt in history: • What meaning is communicated in Hamlet and how does Shakespeare employ a range of literary techniques to communicate it? • The experience of one of the most important and imaginative texts in the English language.

  6. Full text online • In addition to a handful of paper copies, the full text of Hamlet is available online in (at least) two places: • http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/ • http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/ • The first link is JUST the text—with entire scenes on one page. For you minimalists and purists, it is by far the better option. The second link has the text AND a modern translation, but it requires a lot of clicking to work through a scene. My suggestion? Forget about “No Fear.” Read scene summaries on Spark Notes and then the original text on MIT’s website.

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