| The King and Queen are receiving guests-Name them | King Claudius and Queen Gertrude |
| What is relationship between King Claudius and Prince Hamlet? | He is both is uncle and now, (step-) father! |
| What is relationship between Queen Gertrude and Prince Hamlet? | She is his mommy (and sort of his aunt, now.) |
| Approximately how long have the king the queen been married when we first meet them? | One month of wedding bliss |
| What event happened one month before the wedding? | Death of King Hamlet |
| The King says that Hamlet’s behavior (mourning his father’s death) is wrong in several ways… Name the ways | Unmanly, stupid, stubborn, against God, womanish |
| “Imperial Jointress” according to the King | Queen Gertrude |
| The people of Denmark find the king and queen’s marriage inscestuous becuase…. | In a Christian wedding ceremony, when a man and woman marry they become one flesh, making his brother (Claudius) her brother (and now her husband- like marrying her brother.. gross!) |
| Cornelius and Voltemand are asked by the King to deliver a message to whom? | Uncle Fortinbras |
| A man that appears before the king to ask a favor. | Laertes (son of Polonius) |
| What is the favor that Laertes asks that king? | Return to France (he wants to go back to school) |
| ” Seem sad? I don’t just seem sad; I am sad” | Hamlet’s answer to the queen’s response about his father’s death. |
| Wittenberg Germany | Where Hamlet and Horatio went to school before (and after) King Hamlet’s death |
| What request does the king make of Hamlet about returning back to school? | He asks Hamlet not to go back there and stay home in Denmark. Gertrude agrees |
| “Let’s drink wine and shoot off cannons!” | King Claudius response when Hamlet agrees to fulfill the king and queen’s request to not return to school. |
| Everyone else leaves and Hamlet delivers a long speech all alone on stage. This is called a/an. . . . | soliloquy. |
| In this speech, Hamlet expresses his desire to. . . . | kill himself. |
| Hamlet compares his father to. . . . | Hyperion. |
| This figure was. . . . | he Greek god of manly beauty. |
| Hamlet compares his uncle to. . . . | a satyr- half man and half goat |
| Hamlet assumes that his mother married his uncle because of her. . . . | desires. |
| Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo come to tell Hamlet about. . . . | the ghost. |
| When Hamlet hears about this, he wants to. . . . | go outside the castle between 11 and 12. |
| What does Hamlet think the fact that his father’s ghost has appeared means? | Hamlet think it’s a bad sign |
Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2
July 30, 2019