Hamlet

Hamlet worksheets (attached below) need to be turned in completed in this order (top to bottom): Hamlet Act 1, Hamlet and the Ghost, Hamlet's first soliloquy, "To Be or Not To Be versions," Hamlet's options,

Ethan Hawke's Hamlet , Hamlet's changing view of death + Ophelia and Laertes and foils, Hamlet end.

1/28-29: Watching Ethan Hawke's Hamlet (see below). You can find this on NetFlix or through CW/MARS

1/26: See "to be drawing analysis" attached below.

1/25: I want you to work on the soliloquy we looked at before exam week – Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” speech (the most famous speech in all of Shakespeare). I think the best way to get new insight into this speech is to pay attention to the imagery.

Here’s what I would like you to do with a partner:

1. Read the speech again together (one of you take the art of “reader 1” and the other take “reader 2”).

2. After you have read, talk about (and bullet) new ideas you have about the speech.

3. Read back over the speech looking for imagery (descriptions that spark your imagination and allow you to picture something). Underline these.

4. Between the two of you, choose 4 pieces of imagery that you think are particularly important. You are going to draw these (each of you should choose 2 of the 4 to draw)

5. Before you draw: read the images over again, closely and carefully, and brainstorm together all the possibilities of the image (write the brainstorming down on the script – either on the front or the back).

6. Take a piece of computer paper, fold up a third(don’t draw on that third) and draw the image (one on each side).

7. In the third space where you did not draw, write down the image, describe to me what you were trying to illustrate and WHY, and what sorts of insights the drawing has given you.

We are working on Hamlet. There are required worksheets attached below. I'll try to upload the scripts when I can.

Here's a link to the David Tennant version of the play.

1/13 Watching "To Be or Not to Be" Here's the Branagh version, here's the Tennant version and here's the Hawke version.

1/12: We watched the Ghost scene in the Tenant version (29:00 - 40:00) of the film and completed the "Hamlet ghost" worksheet below.

1/7: Complete Hamlet Act 1 worksheets (attached below).