Hamlet Resources- Part IV, Literature: A Critical Study

Our Cast List:

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Deconstructing Quotes: Hamlet

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IB Assessments:

Written Task 2 (using Hemingway Short Stories, The Handmaid's Tale)

IOC (Possible texts: Hemingway Short Stories, The Handmaid's Tale, Hamlet)

Written Task 1

Literary Elements, Techniques, & Devices:

Connotation vs. Denotation

Allusions

Figurative Language

Metaphor

Simile

Imagery

Iambic Pentameter

Prose

Soliloquy

Aside

Read Hamlet Online:

Open Source Shakespeare

MIT

Resources For Understanding Hamlet:

Schmoop

No Fear Shakespeare

Spark Notes

Hamlet Live Binder

Shakespeare Uncovered

Film Versions:

So many film versions and adaptations!

Hamlet Goes To College In Wittenberg

"To Be Or Not To Be"- Ethan Hawke, Hamlet, 2000

"To Be Or Not To Be"- Kenneth Branaugh, Hamlet, 1996

Why read Shakespeare?

• Creating Elsinore in Hamlet

• Insults by Shakespeare, Ted Talk

• All The World's A Stage, Ruled By Guess Who;Why Shakespeare Resonates With The Modern Age

• How To Think Like Shakespeare from Big Think (great series of posts about Shakespeare, language, and context).

• Shaking Up Shakespeare: Reaching The Shakespeare Averse With Adaptions