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Shakespeare’s Hamlet Lecture # 8

Act 1, Scene 1

Act 1, Scene 2

Act 1, Scenes 4-5

Monologues & Soliloquies Hamlet as anti-Pico (2.2.300-319) Power of the play (2.2.559-617) “To be or not to be” (3.1.56-90)

play within a play

appearance vs reality “I know not ‘seems’” (1.2.76) Hamlet The Ghost Polonius Rosencrantz & Guildenstern The player Claudius at prayer (3.3.73-97)

Hamlet’s Epiphany Fortinbras versus Hamlet  4.4.31-66 Hamlet versus Ophelia “Let be” (5.2. 220-225)

Does Hamlet deserve honor?