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Hamlet Flashcards

1
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What is Hamlet made up of (editions)

A

Quarto 1, Quarto 2, Folio

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2
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When was Q2 written?

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1604-5 4000 lines

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3
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When was Q1 written and by whom?

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1603 2200 lines

Probably written by Actor who played marcellus

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4
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When was F1 written and by whom?

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1623

Heminges and Condell

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5
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How does Hamlet represent time/setting/events? (4)

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Costuming
Props
Stage directions
Embedded acting instructions

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6
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What is discourse time?

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Actual sequence/time of events

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7
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What are the 5 types of narrative time?

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can move around discourse
Ellipsis
Summary
Isochrony
Acceleration
Pause
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8
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What does Act 1 Scene 1 represent?

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A microcosm of the play’s central themes/mood/atmosphere.

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9
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Hamlet’s central themes (7)

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Tension
Enemy
Uncertainty
Deception/madness
Isolation
Driving impulse
Delay and doubt
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10
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who informs the narrative of the play?

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The Ghost

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11
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Types of tragedy (3)

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Aristotelian (Greek)
Senecan (Roman)
De Casibus (Medieval)

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12
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Features of a Senecan tragedy (4)

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Revenge theme
Rhetorical impassioned speech
Play-within-play
Ghosts

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13
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Reasons for Hamlet’s delay (3)

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Conflux of belief in ghosts
Cognitive dissonance and culture
Mistrust

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14
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What are the conflicting beliefs in the Ghost? (4)

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Hamlet’s father
A desperate purgatory soul
A demon
A figment of imagination

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15
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Types of cognitive dissonance in contemporary culture

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Residual: Catholic
Dominant: Protestant
Emergent: reformed

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16
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Types of adaptation (5)

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Recreation
Reinterpretation
Financial
Recognition
Intertextuality
17
Q

Features of the Early Modern Theatre (5)

A 
Six days a week
Mount a new play fortnightly
Approx. 1000 lines for a lead
Troupes named after patrons
theatres outside London city walls
18
Q

State the 3 father/son revenge plots

A

Young Fortinbras/ Old King Fortinbras
Prince Hamlet/ Old King Hamlet
Laertes/ Polonius

19
Q

Who survives the play?

A

Young Fortinbras and Horatio

20
Q

quote the exchange between Barnardo and Francisco in 1.1

A

B: Who’s there?
F: Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.

21
Q

Quote Hamlet in 1.2 at his opposition to his mother’s marriage.

A

O, most wicked speed.

Incestuous sheets!

22
Q

Quote Hamlet in 1.4 at the vision of the Ghost.

A

Be thou a spirit of health or a goblin damned

23
Q

Quote the Ghost in 1.5 at his explanation

A

burnt and purged away

24
Q

Quote Hamlet’s soliloquy in 3.1

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To be or not to be

To die, to sleep

25
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Quote Hamlet when he is berating Ophelia in 3.1

A

Get thee a nunnery

26
Q

Fortinbras last line in play

A

Go, bid the soldiers shoot

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