1. Do Now: Skim through Acts 2 & 3. Do you have any questions or topics that you need clarified?

2.   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

3.   “What a piece of work is man”  “What a rogue and peasant slave am I”  “To be or not to be…”  Claudius’ Confession Speeches & Soliloquies

4.   Claudius & Polonius Plotting  Play-within-a-play  Claudius Praying  Hamlet & Gertrude Bedroom Scene  Polonius’ Death Scenes