Hamlet: Madness

Question 1

‘To ____ an _____ disposition on’

Answer 1

‘To put an antic disposition on’

A1 S (Hamlet)

Question 2

‘I am but ___ north-_____ _____’
‘mad in _____’

Answer 2

‘I am but mad north-north west’
‘mad in craft’

A2 S2 (Hamlet)
A3 S4

Question 3

‘To ___, or not to ___, that is the _________:’

Answer 3

‘To be, or not to be, that is the question:’

A3 S1 (Hamlet)

Question 4

‘Mad as the ____ and _____ when both ________ which is the ________’

Answer 4

‘Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier’

A4 S1 (Gertrude)

Question 5

‘Poor ________ ________ from herself and her ____ _____________’

Answer 5

‘Poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgement’

A4 S5

Question 6

Ophelia’s madness in the Kenneth Branagh 1996 production

Answer 6

ACT 4 SCENE 5:

• Ophelia is laying on the floor, wearing a straight jacket and head strap
• Ophelia hysterically dances and sings to herself

(reflects her madness and insanity/shows her poor treatment within the court)

Question 7

‘A girl ____________ physically and _______ from the pangs of ___________ love’

Answer 7

‘A girl suffering physically and mentally from the pangs of rejected love’

Carol Camden, 1964

Question 8

‘There need by no ______, then, that Hamlet’s ____________ was really _______’

Answer 8

‘There need by no doubt, then, that Hamlet’s madness was really feigned’

Alexander W Crawford, C.21

Question 9

‘This is the very _________ of your ______’

Answer 9

‘This is the very coinage of your brain’

A3 S4

Question 10

‘His _________ is poor Hamlet’s _______’

Answer 10

‘His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy’

A5 S2 (Hamlet’s excuse to Laertes for his actions)

Question 11

‘Becomes Hamlets ___-_______, giving expression, in some sense, ______ out what he _______’

Answer 11

(Ophelia) ‘Becomes Hamlet’s mad-double, giving expression, in some sense, acting out what he cannot’

Fox-Good

Question 12

Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ speech in Simon Godwin, Paapa Essiedu (2016)

Answer 12

ACT 3 SCENE 1:

• Hamlet appears mentally/physically drained
• His costume is disheveled (pants folded at different levels, covered in paint)
• Tear running down his cheek, speech in a slow/tearful manner
• Walks down the stairs on the stage (descending into madness)
• constantly moving, shifting and fiddling=
  erratic

Question 13

Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ speech in Kenneth Branagh (1996)

Answer 13

ACT 3 SCENE 1:

• Hamlet wearing all black/mourning clothes (state of dismay/grief)
• Hamlet speaks in front of two-way mirror which Polonius and Claudius are hidden behind
• Hamlet appears calm and calculated rather than mad or crazy