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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... . Pantomime - The Grave Diggers Scene . Reading The Ghost . Table Talk - The Mental , Moral , and Vital side of Hamlet's nature . One Minute Concepts - The Puns in the Play . The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction . 1 - To what 7.
... . Pantomime - The Grave Diggers Scene . Reading The Ghost . Table Talk - The Mental , Moral , and Vital side of Hamlet's nature . One Minute Concepts - The Puns in the Play . The Tragedy of Hamlet Introduction . 1 - To what 7.
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... finite and ascertain , ( a ) the effect upon his nature , ( b ) the effect upon his mind , ( c ) the effect upon the spiritual side of his being . 24 - Which plays the greater part in Hamlet's life 8 The Tragedy of Hamlet ...
... finite and ascertain , ( a ) the effect upon his nature , ( b ) the effect upon his mind , ( c ) the effect upon the spiritual side of his being . 24 - Which plays the greater part in Hamlet's life 8 The Tragedy of Hamlet ...
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... side of Hamlet's nature is in the ascendency at the opening of Scene 2 , the mental , moral , or physical ? 5 - What kind of nature had Horatio ? 6 - Why does Hamlet confide in Horatio ? 7 - What , according to Hamlet , is the mission ...
... side of Hamlet's nature is in the ascendency at the opening of Scene 2 , the mental , moral , or physical ? 5 - What kind of nature had Horatio ? 6 - Why does Hamlet confide in Horatio ? 7 - What , according to Hamlet , is the mission ...
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... side by side with the criminal ? 21 - What is the atmosphere of Scene 7 ? 22 - What is meant by atmosphere in a play ? 23 - Why are the sentences so long in the Queen's speech to Laertes ? 24 - What is the central idea in Scene 7 ? 25 ...
... side by side with the criminal ? 21 - What is the atmosphere of Scene 7 ? 22 - What is meant by atmosphere in a play ? 23 - Why are the sentences so long in the Queen's speech to Laertes ? 24 - What is the central idea in Scene 7 ? 25 ...
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... sides of Ophelia's character . 4 - Is there a touch of conscious bitterness in Shakespeare's portraiture of her ? 5 - Is she the mediate cause of the terrible tragedy in which she and Hamlet are swept away ? 6 - Contrast Lady Macbeth's ...
... sides of Ophelia's character . 4 - Is there a touch of conscious bitterness in Shakespeare's portraiture of her ? 5 - Is she the mediate cause of the terrible tragedy in which she and Hamlet are swept away ? 6 - Contrast Lady Macbeth's ...
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1-What is Hamlet's 11-Was Hamlet 18-What dramatic 19-What in Scene 3-What kind 4-Define Act I-Scene atmosphere of Scene attribute Hamlet's balance and proportion beginning of Scene Charles Tidwell Phelan Claudius climax in Scene Clown Dallas Denmark development in Polonius drama dramatic forecasts dramatic function dramatic purpose effect emotion in Scene entire play figures of speech Fortinbras function of Hamlet's function of Polonius Ghost Grave Diggers Hamlet assume Hamlet compare Hamlet indulge Hamlet show Hamlet's madness Hamlet's nature Hamlet's soliloquy Hamlet's traits interview kind of scene King's Laertes reveal mental moral of Scene mother opening of Scene Osric Paper-Shakespeare Paper-The play of Hamlet poetic justice Polonius does Hamlet Queen receive Hamlet's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scene is Scene Shakespeare shown show of Hamlet's side of Hamlet's situation in Scene subtleties in Scene supernatural agencies influence told by narrative Tragedy of Hamlet UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN utter versus word in Scene
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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.