hamlet

Bardone Lavinia, Galaverna Letizia, Gazzera Ettore, Melchi Cecilia, Rossi Adelaide

hamlet

william shakespearE

ChARACters

PLOT

themes

symbolism

monologue

shakespeares's impact

PLOT

• The appearance of the ghost
• What is appening in Norway

Act I

• Hamlet is informed of the ghost's appearance
• He starts to behave strangerly

Act II

Act III

• The theatre company arrives
• Hamlet kills Polonius

PLOT

Act V

Act IV

• Everybody else dies
• Fortinbras ascends to the throne

• Ophelia dies
• Hamlet returns to Denmark

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character

court

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BAROQUE

HAMLET'S

FRIENDS

Themes

• When and why Hamlet doesn't act, even when he can?
• What's Hamlet's madness?
• What's the difference between Hamlet's and Ophelia's insanity?
• Why does Shakespeare use images of desease and decay?

Themes

• What are the differences between appearance and visible reality ?
• Why are honour and revenge tied together?
• What are the supernatural elements throughout the play?

SYMBOLISM

• Why does Shakespeare use the play within the play?
• What is the play within the play?

• Why is Yorick's skull so important?

• Why the appearance of a spectre is often recurrent in plays?

Yorick's skull

• What do Ophelia's flower represent?
• Why in Hamlet flowers are beautiful and dramatic at the same time?

Ophelia's flower

The unweeded garden

• Why does Shakespeare use the image of the unweeded garden?

BAROQUE

THE MONOLOGUE

BAROQUE

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.

REVOLUTION IN THE WORLD OF TRAGEDY

New use of the monologues.

SHAKESPEARE'S

• Use of rhetorical figures.
• Inspiration from Italian tales.

STYLE

SHAKESPEARE'S IMPACT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• 1604 "Table Alphabeticall"

wrote to make easier the read of difficult book (ex.Bible)

• 1755 "A Dictionary of the English Language" was published, which established the basis for modern English.
• (Hurry, all is well what ends well, with bated breath)

"A Table Alphabetically, containing and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usual English words borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French, &c. With the interpretation thereof by plain writing acts and English words, gathered for the benefit and help of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskillful persons. Whereby that they may speak more eaſily easily and fluently, have a better understanding many hard English words, which they shall hear or read in Scripture,Sermons or else where, and also be made able to use at the same aptitude themselves."

ROSENCRANTZ and GIULDENSTERN

HORATIO

• He is the first one who sees the ghost of King Hamlet
• Hamlet's friend

• Hamlet's school friends

POLONIUS

• Laertes' and Ophelia's father
• Councilior of state

ACTORS

QUEEN GERTRUDE

• Hamlet's mother
• She remarries her brother-in-law

OPHE LIA

• Polonius' daughter and Laertes' sister
• She causes Hamlet's descend into madness

• King of Denmark

• Murderer of the late king

KING CLAUDIUS

LAERTES

• Polonius' son

• He mortally stabs Hamlet

FORTINBRAS

• Prince of Norway

• At the end of the play he's crowned king ok Denmark

• Main character of the play
• King Hamlet's son and king Claudius' nephew