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Hamlet Review Flashcards

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Actor who plays Hamlet

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Mel Gibson

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Actress who plays the Queen Gertrude

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Glenn Close

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A collection of plays

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Folio

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A manuscript of a single play

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Quarto

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Revenge play is

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Requires a crime, usually a murder

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Talking with alone or regardless of any hearers present; device in a drama to present a character’s thoughts

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Soliloquy

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Stage direction to exit

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Exeunt

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Then

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Anon

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Church (law)

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Canon

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An inconstant person

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Chameleon

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To name

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Clepe

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Ordinary; but also, vulgar

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Common

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Vulgar or obscene affairs

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Country matters

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Sadness

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Dirth

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A mythical poison

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Hebenon

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A virgin

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Maid

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Happiness

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Cain killing his brother Abel (biblically, the first murder)

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Primal eldest curse

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Tradition of safety and refuge in a church

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Suicide

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Self-slaughter

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Drink

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To court,romance

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Lying

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Criticism

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Forbidden to suicides

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Christian burial

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Commoner; rustic

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Dead body

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Relative beyond the nuclear family

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Silent

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Villain

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Truly

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Allies of the Norwegians

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Face; facial expression

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Usual

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Shakespeare considered his art to be his __. However moderns generally know and consider Shakespeare’s __ as his greatest artistic achievements. Many critics and philosophers rate Hamlet Prince of Denmark as___.

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  • sonnets and other formal verse
  • drama
  • The best of these plays
35
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The reputation of Hamlet is due to its?

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durable “truth” about human psychology, its influence on Anglo-American culture – particularly it’s contribution of allusions, and the character prince hamlet as a modern man.

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Prince hamlet is considered a modern man because…

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Hamlets choice of “to be or not to be” (to do/act or not to) to modern’s need to judge facts and understand motivations before making decisions (remembering too, that not decide is to decide).

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Claudius’s marriage with Gertrude is

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Being a gentleman meant being a

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For the actor, a difficulty in performing the role of Hamlet (especially live onstage) concerns …

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keeping the drawn-out death scene seem serious for the audience; the repeated “i am dead” May become comedic or farcical.

40
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Text for this film primarily sources from

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Qaurto II and First Folio

41
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Columbine represents
Daisy
Fennel
Rue
Violet
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  • disloyalty,in gratitude
  • infidelity
  • flattery
  • sorrow,repentance
  • faithfulness

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