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Act 2.1.1 - 77

Act 2.1.1 - 77. Please read these lines aloud in your group, talk about significant words and phrases that reveal Polonius’ values. What can you conclude about Polonius’ character? List several character traits that you have inferred from his actions and words in this scene.

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Act 2.1.1 - 77

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  1. Act 2.1.1 - 77 • Please read these lines aloud in your group, talk about significant words and phrases that reveal Polonius’ values. • What can you conclude about Polonius’ character? List several character traits that you have inferred from his actions and words in this scene. • Please document the character traits with direct text references/citation.

  2. Act 2.1.77 - 120 • Read the above text and mime what is not said (the subtext). How should the “newly mad” Hamlet be played? • In your group have one person read the lines while the others mime the prescribed actions (including clothing adjustments). • What is Hamlet up to in this scene? • Why is he treating Ophelia this way? Why her, of all people? Does Hamlet love Ophelia? If not, how does he show this? What reasons could he have for putting on this show? • Does Ophelia love Hamlet? What is her reaction to his behavior?

  3. Act 2.2 • The use of double entendre (2.2.172-215): Double entendre is the trick whereby authors set up words or phrases so that they have two meanings - a clean one and a ‘bawdy’ one. Search for them in this scene and list. • Next look at 2.2.220-2. There is a series of double entendres in the exchange between Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who claim to live about the waist of Lady Fortune. See if you can identify them. Why might Hamlet be using these words? Does he mean to be bawdy?

  4. Act 2.2 • Look at 2.2.271-306 (“Were you not sent for” to “man delights not me”) Note all language tricks Shakespeare uses in the passage: for example - metaphors, similes, alliteration, parallel construction, and anastrophe (reversals). • Is there any place in these scenes when Hamlet stops playing with Polonius or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and talks straight from the heart? If so, what happens to the language tricks?

  5. 2.2.1-306 Log Activity • If Hamlet does, in fact, tell some truths in this scene, what might these be? • Construct a soliloquy comprised of only the truths Hamlet speaks in lines 1 – 306.

  6. What the Hecuba? • Like other writers, Shakespeare refers (alludes) to classical Greek and Roman literature. Can you find the allusions in this passage? • Volunteer? I need three readers and three actors for lines 423 – 505. please take 5 minutes to pre-read the scene. While players read, the actors will play out the action of the story Hamlet and the Player tell.

  7. O, what a rogue • Time to read, paraphrase and physicalize this soliloquy (2.2.533 – 590), just like you did with “sullied flesh”, with mime, props, drawings of important words and emotions and sounds. This time, though, let’s do it as one large group.

  8. Homework Read 3.1 and write in your log. Read 3.3.96 – 317 as a random/volunteer group will be performing it next week.

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