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HAMLET

William Shakespeare’s . HAMLET. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqx_HKUOh4. Theme and Structural Analysis. Opens on a note of darkness and suspicion. Guards doing their duties joined by Horatio Ghostly apparition of Hamlet’s father (Old Hamlet)

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HAMLET

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  1. William Shakespeare’s HAMLET

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqx_HKUOh4

  3. Theme and Structural Analysis • Opens on a note of darkness and suspicion. • Guards doing their duties joined by Horatio • Ghostly apparition of Hamlet’s father (Old Hamlet) • Horatio is skeptical and has come to see if the vision will reappear.

  4. Omen of political catastrophe • Denmark is endangered by the prospect of attack by an army of Norway led by Fortinbras. • He is trying to recapture lands lost by his father (Old Hamlet killed him in a battle) • The ghost does not respond to Horatio

  5. Act 1 Scene 2 • Public, ceremonial grandeur (contrast to opening scene) • Confidence and formality give impression of success but remember the foreboding previous scene. • King Claudius – Old Hamlet’s brother • Married to Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother) soon after the death of the old king • Politically sends messengers to the king to curb Fortinbras • Laertes is given leave to travel in France.

  6. Hamlet has recently returned from his studies in Wittenburg in order to attend the funeral and wedding • Sole figure in black • His language is full of puns and double entendres, doesn’t hide how he feels • He agrees to stay in Denmark • At this point he delivers the first of the four great soliloquies • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBVmiVkzTM

  7. Why do you think these soliloquies are so important? • Hamlet saw his father as a god-like man • He is upset with his mother’s marriage and her willingness to marry Claudius • “Frailty, thy name is women.” • Horatio tells him the news of the ghost and Hamlet agrees to watch with them.

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