Keys to Shakespeare's Treasure House: Hamlet. [v.2] Anthony & Cleopatra. [v.3] Twelfth night. [v.4] Merchant of Venice. [v.5] Richard III |
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... attitude is Hamlet assuming toward his foes ? 28 - What is meant by " Chameleon's dish ? " 29 - Who was Hecate ? 30 - Define " Half a share . ” 31 - Define " By these pickers and stealers . " 32 - What does Hamlet's soliloquy at the end ...
... attitude is Hamlet assuming toward his foes ? 28 - What is meant by " Chameleon's dish ? " 29 - Who was Hecate ? 30 - Define " Half a share . ” 31 - Define " By these pickers and stealers . " 32 - What does Hamlet's soliloquy at the end ...
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... attitude does the Queen assume during Hamlet's ar- raignment of her ? Are you in sympathy with her ? 13 - What effect do Hamlet's words have upon her ? 14 - Why does Shakespeare cause Hamlet to kill Polonius at this time ? 15 - Why did ...
... attitude does the Queen assume during Hamlet's ar- raignment of her ? Are you in sympathy with her ? 13 - What effect do Hamlet's words have upon her ? 14 - Why does Shakespeare cause Hamlet to kill Polonius at this time ? 15 - Why did ...
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... attitude of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Scene 2 ? 6 - What game is used in simile in Act IV , Scene 2 ? 7 - Give best example of sarcasm in Act IV , Scens 1 to 5 . 8- ( a ) Why did the King wish Hamlet dead ? ( b ) Why did the King ...
... attitude of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Scene 2 ? 6 - What game is used in simile in Act IV , Scene 2 ? 7 - Give best example of sarcasm in Act IV , Scens 1 to 5 . 8- ( a ) Why did the King wish Hamlet dead ? ( b ) Why did the King ...
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... attitude toward life when he realizes that " all occasions inform against him ? " 10 - Does his life reach a climax in this scene ? 11 - What estimate has he of himself ? Act IV , Scene 5 . 1 - Give the environment of Scene 5 . 2 ...
... attitude toward life when he realizes that " all occasions inform against him ? " 10 - Does his life reach a climax in this scene ? 11 - What estimate has he of himself ? Act IV , Scene 5 . 1 - Give the environment of Scene 5 . 2 ...
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... Scene 1 , of Shakespeare's knowledge of bird life . 17 - Does Scene 1 , Act V , hold any surprise for you ? 18 - Give stage business when 2nd Clown goes out after a stoup of liquor . 19 - What attitude does Hamlet assume toward the grave ...
... Scene 1 , of Shakespeare's knowledge of bird life . 17 - Does Scene 1 , Act V , hold any surprise for you ? 18 - Give stage business when 2nd Clown goes out after a stoup of liquor . 19 - What attitude does Hamlet assume toward the grave ...
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Page 18 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 12 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood...
Page 16 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self -slaughter...
Page 15 - ... can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people, if they could be had : for it is only in society that they are anything; they are society itself; and Shakspeare showed no little wisdom and discernment in bringing in a pair of them.
Page 19 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, Words without thought never to Heaven go.
Page 5 - She is like the snow flake on the river — a moment seen, then gone forever.