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2. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Lecture # 8

5. Act 1, Scene 1

6. Act 1, Scene 2

7. Act 1, Scenes 4-5

8. Monologues & Soliloquies
Hamlet as anti-Pico ( )
Power of the play ( )
“To be or not to be” ( )

9. play within a play

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

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

12. Does Hamlet deserve honor?