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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Mirth
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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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Sanctuary
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Suicide
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Self-slaughter
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Drink
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Wassail
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To court,romance
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Woo
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Lying
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Calumny
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Criticism
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Censure
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Forbidden to suicides
Christian burial
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Commoner; rustic
Clown
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Dead body
Corse
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Relative beyond the nuclear family
Cousin
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Silent
Dumb
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Villain
Knave
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Truly
Marry
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Allies of the Norwegians
Polacks
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Face; facial expression
Visage
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Usual
Wonted
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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___.
- sonnets and other formal verse
- drama
- The best of these plays
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The reputation of Hamlet is due to its?
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...
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
Incestous
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Being a gentleman meant being a
Warrior
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For the actor, a difficulty in performing the role of Hamlet (especially live onstage) concerns ...
keeping the drawn-out death scene seem serious for the audience; the repeated "i am dead" May become comedic or farcical.
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Text for this film primarily sources from
Qaurto II and First Folio
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Columbine represents
Daisy
Fennel
Rue
Violet
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- disloyalty,in gratitude
- infidelity
- flattery
- sorrow,repentance
- faithfulness
