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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Halmet- Perform the…

Where does this play take place? Denmark (Castle Elsinore) As the play opens, Horatio joins Marcellus and Bernardo at their night watch. Why has Horatio joined them? To see the apparition. How does Horatio interpret the appearance of the ghost?…

synecdoche represents a whole by naming one of its parts or elements metonomy represents a noun by naming another, inextricably related noun anthimeria the use of a word as a different part of speech than it is normally, correctly used…

DUNCAN: La la la la la. Me me me me me. Oowah, oowah, oowah, oowah, ooooooowah. Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat… Hello? Hello, is anyone in the booth? Leo! Are you there, Leo? HellO?! LAMAR:…

How does Claudius respond when Gertrude tells him what happened to Polonius? He feels that if he himself was the one present when Polonius was murdered, he would have been the one to die. In this way, he would have…

What happens when Francisco and Bernardo meet at the beginning of 1.1? Where are we, and when? Why is there confusion over which one is supposed to challenge the other by asking “Who’s there”? Why is Horatio with Bernardo and…

Why is Hamlet upset? Because his father died and his mother married his uncle in less than a month. What does the ghost tell Hamlet? The ghost tells him how his father died. He was poisoned by Claudius who poured…

how does Shakespeare begin the play with an immediate sense of suspense? the guards are seeking of a figure they’ve seen in the night (ghost) what is probable important exposition is revealed in this scene? the ghost is the late…

polonius says that Reynaldo may suggest that Laertes is engaging in drabbing. What’s drabbing? Visiting a prostitute why is Polonius sending Reynaldo to France to spy on Laertes? To make sure Laertes is behaving as Polonius is concerned about how…

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