Hamlet or Macbeth

Macbeth or Hamlet

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Audio available in the CHS library e-book available for free from Folger's Shakespeare Library
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Audio available in the CHS library e-book available for free from Folger's Shakespeare Library

Poetry (Choose 1 or 2)

• "Free Will and Fate" by Alfred Austin
• Soliloquy from As You Like It (All the world's a stage)
• "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" by Aemelia Lanyer. Full poem, "Salve Deus Rex Judeaorum" Lines 777-810
• "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

Short Fiction (choose 1 or 2)

• Excerpt from Oedipus the King by Sophocles Version 2
• Ecclesiastes 3 Excerpt from King James Bible
• "The Hounds of Fate" by Saki

Multimedia (choose 1 or 2)

• "The Adjustment Bureau" (film) -Available in the CHS library
• "Macbeth" (modern adaptation) (film)
• "Hamlet" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• Audio recordings - Macbeth or Hamlet - Available in the CHS library
• Classic artistic representations of Ophelia

The library also recommends

• Excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "Behavior: An Absence of Free Will, a Tendency to Cheat" by Eric Nagoruney