Hamlet

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Hamlet

• William Shakespeare was born in 1564 during the
  heart of the English Renaissance (1500-1650). He
  was the epitome of the Elizabethan renaissance
  man. Shakespeare was well-educated and a
  prosperous businessman. He was a shareholder and
  actor in a dramatic company called The Kings
  Men. As a playwright Shakespeare adapted many
  of his 37 plays, and he infused them all with his
  own unique wit, language, and sensibility about
  characterization. As a poet, Shakespeare merely
  perfected the English sonnet. Often called The
  Bard, Shakespeare is perhaps the greatest writer
  of all time and Hamlet Prince of Denmark is
  one of his most remarkable and nuanced works.

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Hamlet

• Shakespeares Style
• Clever Language
• Forceful Images
• Blank Verse
• Motifs

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Hamlet

• Clever use of language
• Puns a play on words based on the similarity in
  sound between two words having very different
  meanings. Also called paranomasia
• Act III, Scene IV p. 837 line 94

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Hamlet

• Clever use of language
• Malapropisms a humorous misapplication of a
  word, the use of a word sounding somewhat like
  the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the
  context
• Act V, Scene I p. 866 line 100

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Hamlet

• Clever use of language
• Conceit A figure of speech that establishes a
  striking or far-fetched analogy between seemingly
  very dissimilar things.
• Act III, Scene III p. 831 line 15

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Hamlet

• Clever use of language
• Irony A feeling, tone, mood, or attitude
  arising from the awareness that what really is
  (reality) is opposite from, and usually worse
  than, what seems to be (appearance).
• Act V, Scene I p. 863 - 871

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Hamlet

• Forceful Images
• Figurative language simile, metaphor, imagery
• On virtually any page you can find a forceful
  image

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Hamlet

• Blank Verse
• Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
• -/ -/ -/ -/ -/
• Five iambs of unstressed/stressed per line

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Hamlet

• Motifs
• Ears
• Misogyny
• Incest
• Death
• Disease