| Hamlet talks to his father’s ghost and promises to get _______________. | revenge |
| The ghost disappears at dawn or when the “cock _________” | crows |
| The ghost reveals that he was killed by poison. . . | poured in his ear while he slept. |
| How are King Hamlet and Claudius related? | brothers |
| Who murdered King Hamlet? | Claudius |
| When Polonius orders Ophelia not to see Hamlet, she __________ | obeys |
| The ghost says he is forced to burn in _______________until he can ascend to Heaven. | Purgatory |
| Who says this quote? “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” | Marcellus, the guard |
| Polonius tells Ophelia not to believe in Hamlet’s ____________ | love |
| What country is the play Hamlet set in ? | Denmark |
| What type of play is Hamlet? | tragedy |
| Ironically, Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle and _________________ | step-father |
| The ghost was first seen by ______________ | 2 army officers |
| Fortinbras is the prince of ______________ | Norway |
| What is the purpose of Hamlet’s soliloquies? | The reader understands what is in Hamlet’s mind. |
| The theme of Hamlet is ___________ | revenge |
| The ghost is introduced as a means of revealing the ____________________ to Hamlet | truth or murder |
| Reynaldo goes to France to _____________ on Laertes. | spy |
| The character Polonius is clever, powerful , or foolish? | foolish |
| The ghost is meek hateful or dignified? | dignified |
| What are the ghost’s instructions to Hamlet? | get revenge on Claudius/ leave your mother to heaven’s judgement. |
| What is the supernatural element in the play? | the ghost |
| Hamlet feigns ___________ after meeting with the ghost. | madness |
| T/ F Polonius thinks Hamlet is insane. | True |
| T/ F Hamlet fears that the ghost may be sent by the devil. | True |
| T/ F Fortinbras is an aggressive young man. | True |
| T/ F The queen is fond of Ophelia. | True |
| _____________is Hamlet’s one true friend. | Horatio |
| _____________says, “Though this is madness, yet there is a method in it.” | Polonius |
| Ophelia is actually in love with ______________ | Hamlet |
| The Murder of Gonzago portrays the murder of a ____________. | king |
| The play that convinces Hamlet & Horatio that the kind is guilty is called. . . | The Mousetrap |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are called puppets, why? | They do whatever the king and queen wish. |
| T/ F Polonius is unjustly killed. | False–He was spying and paid the ultimate price. |
| T/ F Laertes returned to Denmark to revenge Polonius’ murder. | True |
| T/ F Like Hamlet, Ophelia only pretends to be mad. | False |
| T/F Claudius is to blame for Polonius’ death. | False/ Hamlet murdered him. |
| T/ F Claudius uses Laertes as a tool to kill Hamlet. | True |
| T/F The queen is courageous and not easily influenced. | False–she’s easily led by Claudius. |
| T/F Claudius never admits his guilt to the audience. | False–He admits it when he tries to pray. Says his soul is black, etc. |
| T/F Gertrude is astonished to see the ghost. | False–She never sees it. |
| T/F Laertes believes that Hamlet murdered his father. | True |
| T/ F Both Laertes and Fortinbras seem more decisive and resolute than Hamlet. | True/ they both make decisions and act more quickly than Hamlet does. |
| Why doesn’t Hamlet kill Claudius while he is praying? | Hamlet thinks Claudius’ soul will go to heaven. |
| Whose fault is Polonius death? | His own fault primarily. |
| What is the cause of Ophelia’s death? | madness/ drowning |
| Laertes plots the duel because of grief ambition or jealousy? | grief (over his father’s death) |
| How many months does the play cover? 2 5 or 9? | five months |
| Hamlet sees a ghost a second time when he is with ________________ | Gertrude. |
| Claudius suggests a ______________match between Hamlet and Laertes. | fencing/ sword |
| Claudius sends Hamlet to England to have him ___________ | killed |
| T/ F The queen knows the wine is poisoned when she drinks it. | False |
| T/F Fortinbras conquers some land in Germany. | False |
| Who says this quote? “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” | Horatio (when Hamlet is dying) |
| T/ F Hamlet and his mother forgive each other before they die. | True |
| Why does Hamlet apologize to Laertes before the sword fight? | Hamlet knows what it is to lose a father/ feel badly. |
| Why must Horatio remain alive at the end of the play? | To tell everyone what has happened. |
| Hamlet fails in his mission to kill Claudius because he lacks power determination or help? | determination |
| The queen died because she . . . | drinks poison |
| Hamlet’s true character is best understood by ____________ | Horatio |
| T/F Hamlet is sure that Fortinbras will win the election as the next king. | True |
| Hamlet was written | 1600 |
| Shakespeare time periods | 1564-1616 |
| Shakespeare’s writing career | 1590-1610 |
| importance of 1623 | publication date of the 1st Folio*the Folio put the plays together in a book after Shakespeare’s death*without this, we would not have some of the biggest plays of Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth) |
| Hamlet is known as | one of the “great tragedies”*others include Othello, Macbeth, King Lear |
| great tragedies deal with the concept of | evil in humanity |
| Romeo and Juliet is a | character study, not a great tragedy |
| We don’t know what Shakespeare thought of | Hamlet, we have no letters about it or interviews |
| Hamlet is what kind of tragedy? | a revenge tragedy (Dad is killed, Hamlet must seek revenge) |
| Because this is a revenge tragedy | the audience knows that the Father and Hamlet would be dead before the night is up |
| the ghost tells the group that | his info must remain a complete secret |
| Why does the play Hamlet open the way it does? | they could not dim the lights and did not have a curtain back then, so the 2 characters started yelling in this scene to get audience attention*the names of characters are said, once identified, the audience has the visual cues to recognize them again |
| Why are 2 short lines split? | to keep the meter, both of them add to 1 full line of iambic pentameter |
| Act 1 scene 1, the play turns from narrative to action when | the ghost enters and Bernardo does not have to keep describing the ghost they saw (he is there for Hamlet to see for himself) |
| the ghost wears… | the same armor he wore when he defeated Fortinbras from Norway (Hamlet won and killed Old Fortinbras) |
| What does Horatio think that the ghost means? | bad news for the upcoming war |
| Marcellus speech in act 1 scene 1 | religious echo, reference to Christ’s birth |
| religion in this play | is inseparable from the play*even in Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy he asks if he should kill himself or not, he says if only God had not set his canon against self slaughter he would kill himself |
| How are many scenes ended | short and abrupt couplet |
| director’s privilege | directors have the power to decide what he or she wants, they can cut out scenes or change the settings |
| every scene either… | -gives us information-moves the plot forward-both |
| Why is Hamlet going to England? | -with Rosencrantz and Gildenstern who have been ordered to come with him |
| deus ex machina | when Hamlet meets the pirates and they bring him home, when Hamlet has the King’s stamp |
| Why does Ophelia describe to us how Hamlet came to her mad? | she can capture how important the little details are and how unusual his behavior came across |
| Why didn’t Shakespeare sell copies of his plays? | so he could keep control of them (folio and quartos changed this) |
| purpose of the Players | -lighten the mood for Hamlet-Hamlet lectures the players on how to put on the play (seen as Shakespeare coming through and telling the audience how to perform his playwrights and stagecraft–we don’t ever know of Hamlet having this background) |
| the players are at the castle because | they are out of work in the big cities by 6-7 year old children taking the work from them*people thought child acting was humorous and it became popular*adult players were forced to go on the road–reason why they traveled to the castle |
| what poison does Claudius use on King Hamlet | Hebenon |
| Voltemand and Cornelius | ambassadors to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark. Ambassadors Voltimand and Cornelius are sent by Claudius to deliver news to the “impotent and bed-rid” King of Norway that Fortinbras plans to invade Denmark |
| clowns | very low people of society (Shakespeare writes this part in prose instead of iambic pentameter) |
| Act 5 Scene 1 | takes place in a graveyard (religious theme, talk about if Ophelia should be buried there because she could have committed suicide) |
| theme of Act 5 Scene 1 | death is a great equalizer, (we all end up in the same place, the jester, Alexander the Great, etc.) |
| before the Act 5 Scene 1, Hamlet was | completely in control verbally, but the gravedigger/clown matches Hamlet’s quick wit (Hamlet has to think before he speaks) |
| in Act 5 Scene 1 Hamlet says there isn’t much difference between | a peasant and royalty (royalty is not inherently better) |
| Why is the Osric scene in there? | Osric has a lot of land and he is in court, so he has power and high status, but he is not very bright*this contrasts with the gravedigger scene, the gravedigger is so smart that he can keep up with Hamlet but he has nothing*we also see in this scene that Hamlet has not lost any of his verbal ability, since we see it in this scene, the gravedigger was just that smart to match Hamlet |
Hamlet
July 16, 2019