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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... traits of each character in the group . 3 What is Laertes ' part in the play ? 4 - Is there a comic element in Scene 3 ? 5 - What warning does Laertes give his sister in reference to Hamlet's attentions ? 6 - What is the dramatic ...
... traits of each character in the group . 3 What is Laertes ' part in the play ? 4 - Is there a comic element in Scene 3 ? 5 - What warning does Laertes give his sister in reference to Hamlet's attentions ? 6 - What is the dramatic ...
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... - Does Hamlet's remark when the Ghost makes its exit man- ifest the cardinal traits of his character ? 19 - Why did Hamlet answer Horatio and Marcellus evasively ? 20 - How does the Ghost's emphasis to Hamlet's request 12.
... - Does Hamlet's remark when the Ghost makes its exit man- ifest the cardinal traits of his character ? 19 - Why did Hamlet answer Horatio and Marcellus evasively ? 20 - How does the Ghost's emphasis to Hamlet's request 12.
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... traits . 30 - Do the closing words of Act I uttered by Hamlet foreshadow the main action of the drama ? ( b ) Do you consider them the key - note of the drama ? ( c ) What is the key - note of a drama ? 32 - What has been accomplished ...
... traits . 30 - Do the closing words of Act I uttered by Hamlet foreshadow the main action of the drama ? ( b ) Do you consider them the key - note of the drama ? ( c ) What is the key - note of a drama ? 32 - What has been accomplished ...
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... traits are revealed in the interview between these two men and Hamlet ? 22 - What does this interview reveal of the quality of Hamlet's intellect ? 23 - What dramatic forecast in this interview ? 24 - What innovation caused the ...
... traits are revealed in the interview between these two men and Hamlet ? 22 - What does this interview reveal of the quality of Hamlet's intellect ? 23 - What dramatic forecast in this interview ? 24 - What innovation caused the ...
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... trait is developing in Ophelia ? 17 - Is Ophelia a good actress ? 18 - What in Hamlet's soliloquy " To be or not to be , " is active ? What passive ? 19 - Why does Hamlet repeat " to sleep ? " 20 - Why does Hamlet stop in his soliloquy ...
... trait is developing in Ophelia ? 17 - Is Ophelia a good actress ? 18 - What in Hamlet's soliloquy " To be or not to be , " is active ? What passive ? 19 - Why does Hamlet repeat " to sleep ? " 20 - Why does Hamlet stop in his soliloquy ...
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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.