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Shakespeare & Hamlet Class Notes Flashcards

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Full title:

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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Setting:

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Denmark

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(Royal Family of Denmark) King Hamlet (..): … king, “…”

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dead; good; warrior

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(Royal Family of Denmark) Queen Gertrude: …. wife

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king hamlet’s

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(Royal Family of Denmark) King Claudius: … brother, … gains …

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king hamlet’s; sneakily; throne

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(Royal Family of Denmark) prince hamlet: … and … son; …; never becomes …., although he …

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king hamlet and gertrude’s; protagonist; king; should be

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(danish nobility) Polonius: … to king, …, … children

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right hand man; widower; 2

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(danish nobility) laertes: … son, …

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Polonius’s; oldest

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(danish nobility) Ophelia: … daughter, …. girlfriend

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Polonius’s; Prince Hamlet’s

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(danish nobility) Horatio: …, … best friend, attends …

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court; Prince Hamlet’s; Wittenberg

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(Royal Family of Norway) King Fortinbras (…): killed by …., has ….

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dead; King Hamlet; brother

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(Royal Family of Norway) “Old Norway”: … brother, now …, …

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King Fortinbras’s; king; nameless

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(Royal Family of Norway) Prince Fortinbras: … son, should be … but is not

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King Fortinbras’s; king

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(key places, terms, etc) Elsinore: … in …

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castle; Denmark

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(key places, terms, etc) wittenberg: … and …, where …. started, …. is student here, … dies while he’s …. located in …., …. returns to find … as …, now married to …

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school; church; protestant reformation; prince hamlet; father; attending school; germany; hamlet; uncle; king; his mother (queen g)

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(key places, terms, etc) catholic vs. protestant: we don’t know which

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prince H. is

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(key places, terms, etc) England as …. to …, ally but paid that country for …

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tributary; denmark; protection

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the election: reason why

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claudius is king

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(origin story) Saxo Grammaticus (Saxo, the …) had responsibiity of writing …

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1st Danish history

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(origin story) Anglo-Saxons: danes were ..–> no belief in ..

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fatalists; after-life

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(origin story) due to fatalist outlook, good behavior and bravery was encouraged through appeal of

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good legacy

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(origin story) legacies were bestowed by

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poets

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(origin story) Saxo wrote book

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Gesta Danorem

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(origin story) canon: book composed of

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smaller books

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(origin story) gesta danorem meaning

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deeds of the danes

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(origin story) in books 3 & 4 of gesta danorem is the original story of …; in this version, … brothers, … and …, both given …. over … by …

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hamlet; 2; horvendill; feng; equal rule; Jutland; King Rorik

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(origin story) Horvendill is chosen because he is a …., where Feng is chosen because he is a gifted …

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skilled warrior; politician

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(origin story) horvendill returns from …. in which he slays ….

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Viking expedition; Koll, King of Norway

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(origin story) King Rorik gives Horvendill … as thanks

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his daughter, Gerutha’s, hand

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(origin story) Horvendill and Gerutha have a son –>

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(origin story) Horvendill is now a more …

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legitimate king figure

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(origin story) Feng, fearing that he had become … as … kills horvendill and convinces Gerutha that he has killed him for …, claiming that Horvendill ….

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delegitimitized; equal ruler; her protection; secretly hated her and her father

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(origin story) Feng is warping Horvendill’s

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(origin story) Feng declares himself …. and Rorik … of .. and …

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sole ruler of Jutland; dies; shock and grief

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(origin story) Amleth fears for his life and pretends to be

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(origin story) Feng marries …. and puts Amleth’s insanity to … (including… Amleth with …)

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Gerutha; many tests; seducing; Feng’s daughter

37
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(1583-1588) the … written by ..

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The Spanish Tragedy; Thomas Kyd

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(1583-1588) The Spanish Tragedy: one of the first … in …

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revenge tragedies; Elizabethan Theater

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(1583-1588) The Spanish Tragedy features a ….

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play-within-a-play

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(1583-1588) tragedies weren’t … at the time

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(1583-1588) spanish tragedy had a … character and a character with the name …

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ghost; Horatio

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(1588) Ur-Halet=

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primordial hamlet

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(1588) primordial hamlet means

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a before time hamlet

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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: we don’t know who

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the author is

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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: some people think it was shakespeare’s

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rough draft

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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: features a central character named

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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: ghost that repeatedly shouts

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“Hamlet, Revenge!”

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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: play was

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(1603) - Quarto One- “Bad Quarto”: Quarto, book folded into …, ….

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4 parts; pocket-sized

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(1603) - Quarto One- “Bad Quarto”: contains a lot of … from …, but …

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lines; Hamlet; horribly written

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(1603) - Quarto One- “Bad Quarto”: hamlet performed before

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(1603) - Quarto One- “Bad Quarto”: theory is that someone in play who wasn’t Hamlet/who had seen play several times tried to …. to …

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publish play; make money

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(1605) Quarto Two- “Good Quarto”: … version of the text

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(1605) Quarto Two- “Good Quarto”: says it was made from

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original and true copy

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(1605) Quarto Two- “Good Quarto”: suspected that … published this one

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shakespeare

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(1623) First Folio: composed … years after death of Shakespeare, result of Shakespeare’s friend’s .. and …

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7; grief; fear

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(1623) First Folio: 2 friends, actors: … and … compiled all of the original writings; no piece of lit had been …., 1st time shakespeare became …

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john heminge; henry condill; printed this way before; literature

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(1623) First Folio: included … of the … plays written by shakespeare

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(1623) First Folio: book that

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gave us shakespeare

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(1623) First Folio: … plays are offered in the First Folio only, including …, …, …, …, etc.

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18; macbeth; ceaser; Twelfth Night; The Tempest

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(1623) First Folio: was … when first published

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(1623) First Folio: … printed, … remain, … of which are in the Folger Shakespeare library in washington d.c.

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500; 233; 82

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