UCAS Revision

Question 1

Lawrence Olivier

Answer 1

1940s, intimate with Gertrude, kisses her

Question 2

Benedict Cumberbatch

Answer 2

2015, rubble on stage throughout to symbolise rotting and decay

Question 3

Royal Shakespeare Company

Answer 3

2016, (final scene) Hamlet and Laertes share an emotional moment of forgiveness, Horatio demonstrates true care for Hamlet

Question 4

Goethe

Answer 4

(Hamlet has a) “poetic and morally sensitive soul”

Question 5

Mallibard

Answer 5

“Horatio feels deeply”

Question 6

Vardy

Answer 6

“Polonius is instrumental to the seizure and control of power”

Question 7

Taylor

Answer 7

(Ophelia) “her aimless death neither suicide nor accident, symbolises her aimless life.

Question 8

Hamlet (Oh)

Answer 8

“Oh that this too too sullied flesh would melt”

Question 9

Hamlet (Frailty)

Answer 9

“Frailty thy name is woman”

Question 10

Polonius (This)

Answer 10

“This above all to thine own self be true”

Question 11

Marcellus (Something)

Answer 11

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Question 12

Hamlet (The)

Answer 12

“The serpent that did sting my father’s life now wears his crown”

Question 13

Laertes (I)

Answer 13

“I dare damnation”

Question 14

Claudius (O)

Answer 14

“O, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven”

Question 15

Morden (Rossetti)

Answer 15

“Beneath sentiments of compliance in her poetry there is often an undertone of resistance”

Question 16

Bocher (Rossetti)

Answer 16

“Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love for another human”

Question 17

Avery (Rossetti)

Answer 17

“Rossetti’s speakers demonstrate both an awareness of and resistance to those social and political expectations”

Question 18

Touche (Rossetti)

Answer 18

“Longings and cravings are ever present in Christina Rossetti’s poetry”

Question 19

Saturday Review (Rossetti)

Answer 19

“There is not much thinking in them”

Question 20

No, Thank you John

Answer 20

“Why will you tease me day by day”

“Use your common sense”

“I’d rather say no to fifty Johns”

Question 21

Winter: My Secret

Answer 21

“Suppose there is no secret after all”

“Come bounding and surrounding me”

“Perhaps my secret I may say”

Question 22

From the Antique

Answer 22

“Doubly blank is a women’s lot”

“It’s a weary life”

“We’re nothing at all in all the world”

Question 23

Remember

Answer 23

“Into the silent land”

“Only remember me”

“Better by far you should forget and smile”

Question 24

Goblin Market

Answer 24

“You should not peep at goblin men”

“Laura turn’s cold as stone / To find her sister heard that cry alone”

“Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices”

Question 25

Klein (Wilde)

Answer 25

“Robert is a spokesperson for every man who is presumed and pressured to be more than he is”

Question 26

Raby (Wilde)

Answer 26

“Wilde targeted his audience with precision”

Question 27

Bose (Wilde)

Answer 27

“Mrs Cheveley’s wrongdoing is obvious, she invades male power”

Question 28

Powell (Wilde)

Answer 28

“Wilde simultaneously seeks to dismantle and preserve the double standards”

Question 29

Allen Cave (Wilde)

Answer 29

“The nature of the masks that allow one to play out numerous identities”

Question 30

Sir Robert Chiltern (I)

Answer 30

“I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds”

Question 31

Mabel Chiltern (Then)

Answer 31

“Then I suppose it is my duty to remain with you”

Question 32

Lord Goring (A)

Answer 32

“A woman who can keep a man’s love, and love him I return, has done all the world wants of women”

Question 33

Stage directions about Mrs Cheveley (A)

Answer 33

“A mask has fallen from her”

Question 34

Lady Chiltern (A)

Answer 34

“A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s”