William Shakespeares Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.ppt

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Lecturer: Audrey Tinkham April 13, 2004 Themes in Hamlet Revenge Religion the Otherworldly Disease and Corruption Appearance vs. “Reality” Hamlet, Act I Scene 1: The Ghost, the setting context Scene 2: Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet Scene 3: Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius Scenes 4 5: Hamlet and the Ghost Hamlet, Act II Scene 1: Polonius and Reynaldo Scene 2: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Polonius, Gertrude, and Claudius Polonius and Hamlet Hamlet and Rosencrantz Guildenstern Hamlet and the Players Hamlet, Act III Scene 1: The plot thickens; Hamlet and Ophelia Scene 2: Hamlet and the Players Hamlet and Horatio Hamlet and Ophelia The Play within a Play Scene 3: Claudius’s Prayer Scene 4: Hamlet Gertrude; Polonius slain Hamlet, Act IV Scene 1: Disposing of the corpse Scene 2: Hamlet and Rosencrantz Guildlenstern Scene 3: In search of the corpse Hamlet and Cladius Hamlet departs for England Hamlet, Act IV Scene 4: Fortinbras marches; Hamlet reflects Scene 5: Ophelia’s “madness” Laertes “storms” the castle Laertes and Ophelia Scene 6: Letter from Hamlet re: pirate ship Scene 7: Cladius and Laertes conspire Ophelia dies Hamlet, Act V Scene 1: Clown and gravedigger Hamlet and Yorick Ophelia’s burial Scene 2: Hamlet explains his trick Osric invites Hamlet to fencing match Madness and mayhem ensue Fortinbras claims Denmark Critical Perspectives We are now come to a scene which I have always much admired. I cannot think it possible that such an Incident could have been managed better, nor more conformably to Reason and Nature. The Prince, conscious of his own good Intensions and the Justness of the Cause he undertakes to plead, speaks with that Force and Assurance which Virtue always gives, and yet manages his Expressions so as not to treat his Mother in a disrespectful Manner . . . . And his inforcing the Heinousness of his Mother’s Crime with so much Vehemence, and her guilty Confessions of her Wickedness . . . Are