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HAMLET Act One: “Who’s There?: The Ghost and the Man in Black

HAMLET Act One: “Who’s There?: The Ghost and the Man in Black. HAMLET : a work in progress …. RSC stamp, 2011. The play as it lives in history Performance history Texts of the play The Play’s Afterlife. David Garrick’s fright wig, 1742. Lego Mini-figure 2012.

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HAMLET Act One: “Who’s There?: The Ghost and the Man in Black

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  1. HAMLETAct One: “Who’s There?: The Ghost and the Man in Black

  2. HAMLET: a work in progress ….. RSC stamp, 2011 The play as it lives in history Performance history Texts of the play The Play’s Afterlife David Garrick’s fright wig, 1742 Lego Mini-figure 2012

  3. Learning to Read: Becoming Better Readers =Being Alert to Dramatic Choices • "What do the words of a Shakespeare play mean?" it is even more important you learn to ask • "What do these words do?" and • "What can these words be made to do?" • What can “sullied” or “sallied” or “solid” do? • You are learning to read the play as a performance text, on the page, written for the stage. • Learning to read like a director/actor/independent thinker - making your own interpretative choices • Watching different performances

  4. Three different texts of Hamlet exist www.quartos.org

  5. Laurence Olivier (1948) Ethan Hawke (2000) Watching Hamlet on film Kenneth Branagh (1996) Mel Gibson (1990) David Tennant (2009)

  6. Act One: “Who’s There? Barnado: Who’s there? Franciso: Nay answer me. Stand and unfold your self. • What prompts Barnardo to speak? Daylight theatre: staging decisions create a world and its characters in words The crucial function of the first scenes: set into motion the questions and mood of the play Who is There?: Identity, Reality, Relationships

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NLnsq3P7Y&index=2&list=PL146DE9E228327C81http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NLnsq3P7Y&index=2&list=PL146DE9E228327C81 “Hamlet - David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie. Act 1, Scene 1” on YouTube (Royal Shakespeare Company BBC version 2009)

  8. f Mar: What has this thing appeared again tonight?Bar: I have seen nothingMar: Horatio says tis but our fantasyAnd will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us ….. this apparition ….. Bar: In the same figure like the King that’s dead …. Horatio: What art thou that usurp’st this time of night …. Mar: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on’t …. Is it not like the King? Horatio: … tisstrange …. This bodes some strange eruption in our state …. Let us impart what we have seen tonight Unto young Hamlet; for upon my life This spirit dumb to us will speak to him Act One, Scene one Who is there – who or what is this “thing”? Is seeing believing?

  9. Claudius: But now, my cousin Hamlet and my son HAMLET: A little more than kin, and less than kind. KING: How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET: Not so, my lord, I am too much i’ th’ sun GERTRUDE: Good Hamlet, cast thy nightly colour off, And let thy eye look like a friend on Denmark. Act 1, Scene 2 Double(s) talk Seeming/Seeing

  10. Brian Blessed (1996) Act 1: “Who’s There? Who is the ghost? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQucj2hea4&list=PL540BEE1C27AA3CC2Act 1. Scene 4. 18-36 • Spirit of health or goblin damned? • Heaven or hell? • Wicked or charitable? • Questionable shape • I’ll call thee Hamlet, father, royal Dane. • What may this mean? • Say why is this? Wherefore? What shall we do? Act 1, Scene 5, 1-155 (doubling) • Alas, poor ghost • I am thy father’s spirit • Prison house • Revenge his foul and most unnnatural murder • O horrible, O horrible, most horrible • Adieu, adieu, remember me • Villian, villian, smiling damned villian • It is an honest ghost • Swear Paul Scofield (1990) Patrick Stewart (2009)

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