Hamlet and Godot Flashcards
Ha: “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this _”
World
In which act and scene is the first changing of the guard, where the guards first come into contact with the Ghost?
Act 1 Scene 1
In what act and scene is Hamlet’s first soliloquy?
Act 1 Scene 2
Ha: “That the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst _”
Self-slaughter
The soliloquy fosters an unparalleled _ between Hamlet and the audience
Intimacy
In what act and scene does Claudius give his machiavellian speech on the marriage and funeral?
Act 1 Scene 2
Ha: “O that this too too _ flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”
Soid/Sullied
The root of soliloquy, ‘sol’, is a word meaning one or _
Alone
What act and scene are we first introduced to Hamlet?
Act 1 Scene 2
“_ generally symbolize people’s regard for each other” - Costello
Flowers
“In her madness _ suddenly comes alive as a character and forces us to reckon with her innuendoes” - Charney
Ophelia
”[. . .] her madness reveals the silent _ who is suffering acutely from her passive acceptance of things” - Charney
Woman
Who said Hamlet’s relationship with his mother had elements of a dimly defined “erotic quality”
Ernest Jones
“Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing, rather than _” - Emma Smith
Doing
Mild mental illness however still in touch with reality
Neurosis
“Hamlet is thought-sick not brainsick - he is neurotic not _” - Harry Levin
Psychotic
“We can image Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without _” - Lee Edwards
Hamlet
Word meaning greater than the sum of its parts
Synergy
“Perhaps only a _ Ophelia of multiple perspectives, more than the sum of all her parts” - Showalter
Cubist
“The doubling in Hamlet can obviously be a means of slowing down the _” - Kermode
Action
“No poet has begun to master dramatic verse until he can write lines which, like these in Hamlet, are _” - T.S. Eliot
Transparent
Who calls Hamlet a poem unlimited?
Harold Bloom
“The ghost appears to four separate witnesses: no one can think it a psychological _” - Mullan
Projection
“Revenge is a kind of _ which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out” - Bacon
Wild Justice
“Taking revenge could never settle the matter for Hamlet, because the root cause of his quandary lies deeper than his _ “ - Ryan
Uncle’s Villany
“The play is obliquely concerned with the question of who would success the unmarried _” - Emma Smith
Queen Elizabeth
“Shakespeare forces Hamlet to wrestle with a series of ethical problems that he must resolve before he can _” - Shapiro
Act
“With Hamlet, a play poised midway between areligious past and a _ future” - Shapiro
Secular
“Elizabethan drama had its roots in a morality tradition in which the struggle between the forces of good and evil had been _”
Externalised
“These texts challenge the traditional _ between play and spectator or reader because they deny willing suspension of disbelief”
Contract
“Beckett populates his _ with many characters, including a whole class of little boys and girls”
Offstage
“Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume: one of the thieves was _”
Damned
“To find a form that accommodates the _, that is the task of the artist” - Beckett
mess
“The first act of _ consists in evading what one cannot evade, in evading what one is” - Martin Esslin
Bad faith
“I seek, like a caged beast born of _ born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead…” - Beckett, The Unnamable
Cage beasts
“The Theatre of the Absurd presents irrationality of the human condition through the abandonment of _” - Martin Esslin
Rational devices
“Absurd is that which is devoid of _” - Ionesco
Purpose
One who lives life to the full, hates death and is condemned to a meaningless task
Absurd Hero
The memory of the good pasts
Memoria Praeteritorum Bonorum
“Hamlet needs to _, but there is nobody in whom he can confide” - Shapiro
Talk
“There was more than enough _ to go around in England in the final years of Elizabeth’s reign” - James Shapiro
Uncertainty
“In any case, one is always caught in a period in which _ has no purpose and waiting is the only goal” - Jeffrey Bigham
Time
Relating to dreams or dreaming
Oneiric
“The subject of the play is not Godot, but _” - Martin Esslin
Waiting
The etymology of Fortinbras is fortis meaning _ and bras meaning arm
Strong
In the Sean Mathias broadway production and Michael Lindsay-Hogg adaptation of WFG _ is given a white beard
Estragon
Electra’s father was murdered by her mother and her lover. Like _, Electra seeks to avenge her father’s death
Hamlet
“The end is the beginning and yet you _” - Beckett, Endgame
Go on
“Beckett’s great innovation in Godot is to question the _ previous playwrights felt obliged to respect” - Michael Worton
Formal Structure
“The very act of waiting becomes Beckett’s exposition of the _ people construct in order to pass the hours” - Harold Bloom
Games and rituals
A rule (moral) intended to regulate behaviour or thought
Precept
“The source of the protagonists’ _ is their inability to choose to separate or to choose not to wait” - Athanasius Ayuk
Tragedy
“The _ [tries] to achieve a unity between its basic assumptions and the form in which these are expressed” - Martin Esslin
Theatre of the absurd
“The boy is just nature, leading us to want and think we are on the verge of knowing _” - Bob Corbett
Truth absolute
“Beckett’s great innovation in Godot is to offer a _ or representation of reality” - Michael Worton
Mimesis
In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to protect Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?
Gregory Doran
In which Hamlet adaptation are Ophelia’s actions in Act 4 Scene 5 (madness) always performed spontaneously and off-the-cuff?
Gregory Doran
Who argues that the boy cannot be a messenger from Godot as there is no Godot to bring messages from?
Bob Corbett
What was the name of King Agamemnon’s daughter who largely went through the same circumstances as Hamlet?
Electra
The etymology of Gertrude is ger meaning _ and trut meaning dear
Spear
“I am interested in the _ of ideas, even if i do not believe in them” - Beckett
Shape
What is the Proto-Germanic etymology of the word dream?
Deception/Illusion
The space created by something not being there
Negative Space
In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to punish Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?
Kenneth Branagh
V: “Well? Shall we go?” E: “Yes, let’s go. (They do not _)”
Move
E: “And if he comes?” V: “We’ll be _”
Saved
E: “If we parted? That might be better for us” V: “We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow. Unless _ comes”
Godot
E: “I can’t go on like this” V: “That’s what you _”
Think
“(E loosens the cord that holds up his trousers which, much too big for him, _)”
Fall about his ankles
E: “Why don’t we _ ourselves”
Hang
E: “If we dropped him?” V: “He’d _. Everything’s dead but the tree”
Punish Us
E: “Oh yes, let’s go far away from here” “We can’t” “Why not?” “We have to come back _” “What for?” “To wait for Godot”
Tomorrow
“(V makes a sudden spring forward, the Boy avoids him and exit _) “
Running
E: “I’m _” V: “So am I”
Going
V: “(Softly) Has he a beard, Mr Godot?” B: “I think it’s _, sir”
White
V: “What does he do Mr Godot?” B: “He does _, sir”
Nothing
V: “At me too someone is looking of me too someone is saying, he is sleeping, he knows nothing, _. I can’t go on!”
Let him sleep on
V: “He’ll _. He’ll tell me about the blows he received and I’ll give him a carrot”
Know nothing
V: “Was I sleeping, while the others _? Am I sleeping now?”
Suffered
E: “Are you sure it wasn’t him” V: “Not at all! (_) Not at all! (Still _) Not at all!”
Less sure
V: “It seemed to me he saw us” E: “You _ it. Let’s go. We can’t. Ah!”
Dreamt
E: “I was dreaming that -“ V: “(Violently) Don’t _!”
Tell me
E: “Why will you never let me sleep?” V: “I felt _” E: “I was dreaming I was happy” V: “That passed the time”
Lonely
P: “They give birth astride of a _, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more”
Grave
P: “One day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we were born, one day we shall _”
Die
P: “Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed _”
Time
P: “We wait till we can _. Then we go on. On!”
Get up
V: What is there in the bag?” P: “_”
Sand
P: “But tomorrow I won’t _ having met anyone today”
Remember
“(With sudden fury E starts _ L, hurling abuse at him as he does so. But he hurts his foot and moves away limping and groaning)”
Kicking
E: “He seems to be sleeping. Perhaps he’s _”
Dead
V: “(Looking around) It’s indescribable. It’s like nothing. There’s nothing. There’s a _”
Tree
P: “The blind have no notion of _”
Time
P: “I woke up one fine day as blind as _. Sometimes I wonder if I’m not still asleep”
Fortune
V: “Can’t you see he’s thinking of the days when he was _? Memoria praeteritorum bonorum”
Happy
V: “(Inspecting the _) Seven o’clock… eight o’clock”
Sky
V: “Damn it, can’t you see the man is _!” E: “Damn it, so he is. So he says”
Blind
P: “I am blind” E: “Perhaps he can see into the _”
Future
“(They help Pozzo to his feet, let him go. He _)”
Falls
E: “(They get up) Child’s play” V: “Simple question of _”
Will-power
