PPT-Hamlet Shakespeare’s sources

The ultimate source of the Hamlet story is Saxo Grammaticus Historica Danica 11801208 the saga of one Amlothi or as Saxo calls . Theatre and . Metatheatre. Elizabethan anxiety about the . theatre. New buildings: The Theatre (1576); The Curtain (1577). Philip . Stubbes. , . The . Anatomie. of . Abuses. , 1583. :. ‘…. but mark the flocking and running to Theatres and Curtains, daily and hourly, night and day, time and tide, to see plays and interludes, where such wanton gestures, such bawdy speeches, such laughing and fleering, such kissing and bussing, such clipping and culling, such winking and glancing of wanton eyes, and the like is used, as is wonderful to behold. Then these goodly pageants being done, every mate sorts to his mate, every one brings another homeward of their way very friendly, and in their secret conclaves (covertly) they play the sodomites, or worse. And these be the fruits of plays and interludes, for the most part. And whereas, you say, there are good examples to be learned in them: truly so there are. HAM. LET: . I’ll have these players. Play something like the murder of my father. before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks,. I’ll tent him to the quick. If a do blench,. I know my course.. Hamlet – . The Play. William Shakespeare’s . Hamlet . is . a play, . written around 1600, . that has been performed thousands of times around the world since its first production.. The play, like any play (Shakespeare or otherwise), exists only as words on a page until those words are brought to life onstage, which is obviously the playwright’s purpose.. Eric Kroetsch. Instructions. 2. Compose a Hamlet alphabet book complete with illustrations. Example “A is for the anger that Hamlet feels towards his mother and his uncle Claudius”.. A. A is for Avenge. Deen. McKinley. David . Wilkie. . Devon Colquitt. Analysing the elements of form (style, imagery, character, plot, tone, etc.) within a text. The literary work is approached as independent systems with inter-dependent parts.. Learning Objective: students will understand the development of the play including plot, development, and themes.. Act 1, Scene 1: Brief summary. During the changing of the guard in the middle of the night; the soldiers are discussing the appearance of a ghost that looks like the dead King Hamlet dressed in battle gear. . Feminist theory. By: Angie Ellison, Jenny Torres, Minerva Dominguez, and Paulo Fonseca. Feminist . theory: . is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical . discourse; . it aims to understand the nature of . Gertrude’s Betrayal and Allegiance. . “Mad as the Sea”. “He weeps for what he has done”. Gertrude promises Hamlet she will not tell Claudius about Polonius and Hamlet’s feigning madness, however, she runs to him immediately…. Ophelia doesn’t feature much in the play but her role is to show “. Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of . women” – Shakespeare-online.com. The Height of Suspense and Tension. Scene 1: King, R, G, Queen, Pol, Ophelia, Hamlet. The king and queen question R & G. , and Claudius is becoming impatient: he has started a new refrain in labelling Hamlet as "dangerous." The rest of the scene becomes a test of Hamlet's madness: is Hamlet insane? . Interesting stats. As of the year 2000, there had been 75 film versions made of . Hamlet. —the second most commonly adapted play in all of Shakespeare’s work.. Hamlet himself is the most dominant character in all of Shakespeare. His 1,506 lines of speech in the play account for 39% of the play’s lines.. vocab. http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/earlycrit.html. Swinburne . “The . single characteristic of Hamlet’s innermost nature is by no means irresolution or hesitation or any form of weakness, but rather the strong conflux of contending . Hamlet and the Elizabethan Era Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) lived during the Elizabethan age, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in England. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a town in the heart of England. The First Folio's table of contents, listing 35 of its 36 plays. 'The Shakespeare Canon'. 'The Shakespeare Canon'. Nine minutes of talk (without pictures) on why it's not as simple as that .... WHAT THE OXFORD COMPLETE WORKS CLAIMED IN 1986-87.