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WEEK 12 SLIDES

WEEK 12 SLIDES. AGENDA. Homework Check Revenge Tragedies Dramatis Personae Notes and Parts Act I . REVENGE TRAGEDIES. Revenge is an individual response to an intolerable wrong or public insult Revenge almost always follows a devious path toward its violent end

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WEEK 12 SLIDES

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  1. WEEK 12 SLIDES

  2. AGENDA Homework Check Revenge Tragedies Dramatis Personae Notes and Parts Act I

  3. REVENGE TRAGEDIES Revenge is an individual response to an intolerable wrong or public insult Revenge almost always follows a devious path toward its violent end The avenger is in the grip of an inner compulsion: motivated by an institutional failure (justice in the hands of criminal) Revengers need their victims to know what is happening and why (satisfaction) Universally imperative: stronger than religious convictions

  4. Dramatis Personae Ghost, Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia Horatio, Rosencrantz, Gildenstern Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus Fortinbras

  5. NOTES • Using your play, organize your notes into acts and scenes • Leave enough room for • a visual • a title

  6. AGENDA List of Parts Act I “Stand and unfold yourself!”

  7. “Stand and Unfold Yourself” With your partner, memorize the first six lines of Act I, scene I “Block” your scene, i.e., make sure you are standing and moving exactly how this would be staged

  8. NOTES • Create and title and symbol for the first scene in Hamlet

  9. AGENDA Choice Reading Shakespeare Clip Horatio’s Speech Act I, scene ii

  10. SHAKESPEARE’ LIFE

  11. ACT I, SCENE 1 • Early-modern language is not easy…but you will get the “hang” of it! • Read Horatio’s speech and explicate (unfold) its meaning – he is describing why everyone is so worried WHY Fortinbras wants to attack (1.1.84-111)

  12. ACT I, SCENE ii

  13. AGENDA Choice reading Act I, scene ii

  14. ACT I, SCENE ii

  15. TITLE AND VISUAL • Add a title and visual representation to notes for Act I, scene ii Hamlet and Horatio Meet Again

  16. ACT I, SCENE iii

  17. ACT I, SCENE iv

  18. ACT I, SCENE v

  19. AGENDA Choice Reading Finish Movie Clip Dialectical Journal Multiple-Choice Question

  20. Mel Gibson as Hamlet

  21. Begin Dialectical Journal Act/scene Quote or text reference Reaction/explication The queen is trying to get Hamlet to forget about being depressed. Nighted color must be a black mood. She wants him to forget about his father and, instead, think about the future of Denmark. 1.2. 68 “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, / And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. / Do not with thy vailèd lids / Seek for thy noble father in the dust.”

  22. DIALECTIC JOURNALS Exchange journals with your partner, noting the selected quotes and their reactions Make two marginal notes next to their quote explications Act/scene Quote or textual reference Reaction/explication The queen is trying to get Hamlet to forget about being depressed. Nighted color must be a black mood. She wants him to forget about his father and, instead, think about the future of Denmark. “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, / And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. / Do not with thy vailèd lids / Seek for thy noble father in the dust.” 1.2. 68 What about the vailèd lids part? She is telling him he doesn’t have his eyes “wide open,” so he can’t see the situation clearly.

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