1. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Act I

2. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Act I
Who is who?
Francisco Bernardo Marcellus Horatio
Prince Hamlet Ghost (Old King Hamlet I)
King Claudius Queen Gertrude
Polonius Laertes Ophelia
Cornelius and Voltemand
Old Fortinbras Young Fortinbras
Norway (King of Norway)…uncle of Young Fortinbras

3. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green, and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief, …yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves.”
King Claudius

4. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“A little more than kin, and less than kind!”
Prince Hamlet

5. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Cast thy nighted color off,
and let thine eye look like a friend
on Denmark.”
Queen Gertrude

6. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Seems, madam?
Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems.’ ”
Prince Hamlet

7. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Tis unmanly grief.
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
a heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
an understanding simple and unschooled.”
King Claudius

8. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter.”
Prince Hamlet

9. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Perhaps he loves you now, and now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch the virtue of his will; but you must fear his greatness weighed, his will is not his own.”
Laertes

10. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true….”
Polonius

11. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“These blazes, daughter,
giving more light than heat, extinct in both, even in their promise, a it is a-making,
you must not take for fire.”
Polonius

12. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Think yourself a baby
that you have ta’en these tenders for true pay, which are not sterling.
Tender yourself more dearly,…
or you’ll tender me a fool.”
Polonius

13. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“This bodes some strange eruption
to our state.”
Horatio

14. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“The king doth wake tonight
and takes his rouse, keeps wassail,
and the swagg’ring upspring reels;
and, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.”
Hamlet

15. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
cut off, even in the blossoms of my sin, unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,
no reck’ning made,
but sent to my account
with all my imperfections on my head.”
Ghost (Old King Hamlet I)

16. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
a serpent stung me.
So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forge’d process of my death rankly abused.
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”
Ghost (Old King Hamlet I)

17. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee...”
Prince Hamlet

18. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Marcellus

19. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“I am too much in the sun.”
Hamlet

20. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damn’ed incest.”
Ghost (Old King Hamlet I)

21. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“Haste me to know’t,
that I, with the wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love,
may sweep to my revenge.”
Prince Hamlet

22. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint.
O curs’ed spite,
that ever I was born to set it right!”
Prince Hamlet

23. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Themes to consider:
Revenge
(sons avenging acts against their fathers)
Appearance vs. Reality
(how things seem vs. how things are)
Others…Parenting, Leadership, What is a man?,
Religious beliefs, Thought vs. action, etc.

24. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Hamlet as a tragic hero:
A tragic hero has a tragic flaw…
What is Hamlet’s tragic flaw?
It needs to encompass all his “flaws.”