WEEK 12 SLIDES

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WEEK 12 SLIDES
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AGENDA

• Homework Check
• Revenge Tragedies
• Dramatis Personae
• Notes and Parts
• Act I

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REVENGE TRAGEDIES

• Revenge is an individual response to an
  intolerable wrong or public insult
• Revenge almost always follows a devious path
  toward its violent end
• The avenger is in the grip of an inner
  compulsion motivated by an institutional failure
  (justice in the hands of criminal)
• Revengers need their victims to know what is
  happening and why (satisfaction)
• Universally imperative stronger than religious
  convictions

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Dramatis Personae

• Ghost, Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet
• Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia
• Horatio, Rosencrantz, Gildenstern
• Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus
• Fortinbras

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NOTES

• Using your play, organize your notes into acts
  and scenes
• Leave enough room for
• a visual
• a title

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AGENDA

• List of Parts
• Act I
• Stand and unfold yourself!

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Stand and Unfold Yourself

• With your partner, memorize the first six lines
  of Act I, scene I
• Block your scene, i.e., make sure you are
  standing and moving exactly how this would be
  staged

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NOTES

• Create and title and symbol for the first scene
  in Hamlet

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AGENDA

• Choice Reading
• Shakespeare Clip
• Horatios Speech
• Act I, scene ii

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SHAKESPEARE LIFE
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ACT I, SCENE 1

• Early-modern language is not easybut you will
  get the hang of it!
• Read Horatios speech and explicate (unfold) its
  meaning he is describing why everyone is so
  worried WHY Fortinbras wants to attack
  (1.1.84-111)

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ACT I, SCENE ii
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AGENDA

• Choice reading
• Act I, scene ii

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ACT I, SCENE ii
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TITLE AND VISUAL

• Add a title and visual representation to notes
  for Act I, scene ii

Hamlet and Horatio Meet Again
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ACT I, SCENE iii
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ACT I, SCENE iv
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ACT I, SCENE v
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AGENDA

• Choice Reading
• Finish Movie Clip
• Dialectical Journal
• Multiple-Choice Question

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Mel Gibson as Hamlet
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• Begin Dialectical Journal

Act/scene
Quote or text reference
Reaction/explication
The queen is trying to get Hamlet to forget about
being depressed. Nighted color must be a black
mood. She wants him to forget about his father
and, instead, think about the future of Denmark.
1.2. 68
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, / And
let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. / Do
not with thy vailèd lids / Seek for thy noble
father in the dust.
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DIALECTIC JOURNALS

• Exchange journals with your partner, noting the
  selected quotes and their reactions
• Make two marginal notes next to their quote
  explications

Act/scene
Quote or textual reference
Reaction/explication
The queen is trying to get Hamlet to forget about
being depressed. Nighted color must be a black
mood. She wants him to forget about his father
and, instead, think about the future of Denmark.
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, / And
let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. / Do
not with thy vailèd lids / Seek for thy noble
father in the dust.
1.2. 68
What about the vailèd lids part? She is telling
him he doesnt have his eyes wide open, so he
cant see the situation clearly.