By William Shakespeare Hamlet By William Shakespeare

Why is Shakespeare Great? Greatest Types, human nature + realistic Universality Nature Timelessness Beauty Adaptability Age, time

His Life Author Birthplace Education Hathaway Playwright 154 Plays King’s, Globe Money Christian

Authorship Controversy Jonson Bacon

His Career Nationalism Love Threats Mature Complex Dialogue

His Philosophy + What, content + How, style + Functional + Explicit + Moral tone - Theme, purpose > Themes > Characterization

Random Facts Performed Longest all

Terms Drama, action Directions, time, exits Dialogue, speeches Alone, thoughts “To Be or Not to Be”- Tuesday, 12/17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJ4hKJvgJw&list=WLIrmyv-y6Ftyxm5FL2LjHAhmtNjaqyvnr

Terms Comment Movement Probable Action, does, says - hero - villain

Terms Plot, five, introduction, climax

Terms Tragedy, comedy - serious, universal + tragic flaw - Happy, themes Truth Meanings Real dressing

General Information Remarried Best Perfect Tragedy Denmark Denmark, toll, performed Source, lives Lost Enduring, all, debate, unanswerable

Characters Prince, self- Denmark, brother Mother, wife Ghost Counselor School Student, beloved

Characters Spy Norway Messenger Ambassadors Guard Clowns, dig

Famous Act I Quotations Woman, weak - Greek, wept Eye, father -fear, guard Borrower, self, true - advice - catalyst - foil, hesitates leaders

About Act I Tone Balance, physical - foreshadows Audience’s, audience’s Foil, vengeance Innocent, no, question, genuine Central, suicide, moral Revenge, inciting, primary Feign, ambiguous, pretends, mad, ambiguous

About Act I Continued Justice, sin, balance, punished Alliteration Irony, not Synecdoche Simile - Lethe

Famous Act II Quotations Polonius, why, ironic, longest Hamlet’s - loves, ? Aside, sense Prison - Milton’s play

About Act II Pretending, shatters, 3, eventually Contrast, action, indecision - Coleridge - tragic flaw Focus, political Offend, differentiated Play-acting Emotional, truth Hyperbole, shoes

Act III Mailgrams 1. Ophelia to a friend about her conversation with Hamlet in scene i 2. Hamlet to a friend about his conversation with Ophelia in scene i 3. Claudius to Gertrude about what he has seen in scene I 4. Polonius to Laertes about what he has seen in scene I

Act III Mailgrams 5. One of the players to a friend in the country about scene 2 6. Horatio to a friend about scene 2 7. Rosencrantz or Guildenstern about scene 2 8. Hamlet’s journal entry about scene 2 9. Claudius’s journal entry about scene 3 10. Hamlet’s journal entry about scene 3 11. Gertrude to a friend about scene 3

Act III Mailgrams 12. Polonius’s mental note before he dies 13. Hamlet’s journal entry about scene 4 14. Press release about Hamlet’s departure to England and Polonius’s death

Famous Quotations from Act III Famous, suicide - Subconscious, characterization - shocked, dreadful - Fundamental, death - himself Not - double, prostitution, two, madness - truthfully, romance queen

About Act III Original, fool, pun Nephew Philosophical Acted, end, no, villain Question, repent Emotion, dominated Tragic flaw Invisibility, madman, guilt, innocence

Famous Act IV Quotation simile

About Act IV Betrayal, pretending, mad Hero, opposite, conscience, father - foil, active, avenge Kill, villain Action, forcefulness Love Flowers, symbolic, remembrance Suicide, suicide, pregnant, drowning

About Act IV Devious, three Returned, evil Contrived, pirates, critical, returning

Famous Act V Quotations Goodbye noble

About Act V Drowning, flower, clowns, funny Commoner Equalizer Explosion, guilt Internal, rash, unable

About Act V Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius, Hamlet Heroic Ghost, madness, inevitable Fortinbras, highest, authority

Freytag’s Pyramid

Symbol Death, jester, physical