1. Do Now: What questions do you have about Act I, II, III?

2.   Hamlet  King Claudius  Queens Gertrude  The Ghost  Polonius  Ophelia  Laertes  Fortinbras  Horatio  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Characters

3.   Hamlet – Antic Disposition, Feigned Madness, Scholar, Man of Action?, Murderer?  Ophelia – Hamlet’s Rejection, Family Pressure  Claudius – Guilty King  Gertrude – Weak Mother  Polonius – Meddling Statesman  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern – Friends/Spies  Horatio – True Friend  Fortinbras - Foil Characters - Progression

4.   Hamlet’s Madness  Hamlet’s Soliloquies  “O that this too too solid flesh would melt”  “What a rogue and peasant slave am I”  “To be or not to be”  Political & Physical Setting – Kingdom of Denmark  Language – iambic pentameter, Early Modern English, puns  Existentialism – questioning the human condition and the concept of human existence Topics

5.   “A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”  “O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt.”  “Frailty, thy name is woman.”  “Get thee to a nunnery”  “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”  “Seem, madam? Nay, it is. I know not seems.”  “Man delights not me,” Notable Quotes

6.   Hamlet & the Ghost  Hamlet & Ophelia  Claudius & Polonius Plotting  Play-within-a-play  Claudius Praying  Polonius’ Death Scenes