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Polonius By indirection find directions out Ophelia but good my brother, do not as some ungracious pastors do show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whiles like a puff’d and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance…

Context Elizabethan Theater Queen Elizabeth Reign 1558-1603, Protestant Defeat of Spanish Armada 1558 Company male actors performed in London during winter and spring Players actors who also served as playwrights, directors, and producers Context of Elizabethan Theater open to all…

How long would Elizabethans have mourned a king? A year Insets case in Elisabethen era? Henry 8th divorced Catherine of Aragon because she was his sister in law. Who parallels Gertrude’s and Claudus’s marriage Mary Queen of Scott’s didn’t properly…

According to Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, what prevents him from committing suicide? He needs closure about his father, he is afraid of the afterlife When Hamlet tells Ophelia to “get thee to a nunnery,” what are his feelings about her and…

Queen: “To whom do you speak this?”Hamlet: “Do you see nothing there?”Queen: “Nothing at all; yet all is that I see”(Page 179, Line 149-151)Queen to Hamlet as he is the only one who can see his father’s Ghost Deception/Appearance and…

Entreat (verb) To ask someone earnestly to do something, to plead (matter of life and death)We __________ you not to go, you may not come back alive! Emulate (verb) To strive to equal or excelInstead of trying to ____________ the…

Hamlet Prince of Denmark Ghost Hamlet’s Father, the late King Hamlet of Denmark King Claudius of Denmark, brother of the late king Queen Gertrude Hamlet’s mother and his father’s widowwife of King Claudius Polonius King Claudius’ councillorFather of Ophelia and…

The ghost revealing himself to hamlet I am my father’s spirit Ghost asks hamlet to seek revenge and that he was murdered Revenge his foul and most unatural murder Hamlet asks the ghost to quickly tell him why he must…

Author William Shakespeare Genre Play Setting Denmark in the Middle Ages, in and around the Castle Elsinore Major Characters: Hamlet Strange and impulsive, for most of the play he is conflicted, angry, and grieving. He is the prince of Denmark…

What explanation does Gertrude offer for Polonius’s murder madness In what mood does Hamlet speak with R and G humorously mad; rude, critical, condescending what is claudius’s attitude in scene 3? Finding a solution to his problems, which include Hamlet…