1. By William Shakespeare
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare

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

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

4. Authorship Controversy
Jonson
Bacon

5. His Career
Nationalism
Love
Threats
Mature
Complex
Dialogue

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

7. Random Facts
Performed
Longest
all

8. Terms Drama, action Directions, time, exits Dialogue, speeches
Alone, thoughts
“To Be or Not to Be”- Tuesday, 12/17

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

10. Terms
Plot, five, introduction, climax

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

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

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

14. Characters
Spy
Norway
Messenger
Ambassadors
Guard
Clowns, dig

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

16. 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

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

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

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

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

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

25. Famous Act IV Quotation
simile

26. 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

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

28. Famous Act V Quotations
Goodbye
noble

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

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

31. Freytag’s Pyramid

32. Symbol
Death, jester, physical