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Shakespeare acknowledges the imagination of a lover, a madman, and a poet. The poet is the greatest of all three. He creates the worlds and the story and the characters. A madman hallucinates and talks to himself. A lover imagines…

3.1.144-145Quote: “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays;” Said by: BottomSaid to: TitaniaImportance: It describes everyone in the play 3.2.6Quote: “My mistress with a monster is in love.” Said by: PuckSaid to: OberonImportance:…

Why does Nick Bottom want to play all of the parts? bc he thinks he’s just the best darndest actor anyone has ever seen. and he can do it better than the people they were asigned to What other famous…

What does Titania do for Bottom? She has her fairies sing to him. Who does Puck put the flower juice on? Demetrius. Who says, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”? Lysander. Read the following quote:”I love the…

rosemary remembrance i.e. weddings, funerals (Laertes- sisterly devotion)*wood used to make lutes; cooking herb pansies thoughts (Laertes) fennel and columbine flattery, deceit (Claudius- seducer, diplomat, relationship with Queen)*cooking herb’ ingratitude and forsaken lovers daisy infidelity (Gertrude- relationship with Claudius)*deception rue…

Act 4, Scene 1 Frantic after her confrontation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, who is conferring with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. She asks to speak to the king alone. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit, she tells Claudius about her encounter…

“In the most high and palmy state of Rome,A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted deadDid squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.” allusion “with us to watch.””Therefore I have entreated him along,With us…

What is Elsinore? Castle Who are the 3 guards? Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco Who says ‘There is something rotten in Denmark?’ Marcellus What does it symbolize to have a ghost rise from the grave? Something bad is going to occur What…

Claudius is happy that Hamlet is happy about the play 2 Hamlet gives to be or not to be soliloquy 4 Ophelia blames herself for hamlet’s madness 5 Claudius and Polonius plan to send Hamlet to England 7 Hamlet asks…

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?…