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9. EXAM TOPIC: Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet
In this topic we'll dig deeper into the famous playwright Shakespeare's personal and professional background. We'll investigate the Elizabethan world and the theatre tradition, the location of theatres and other forms of entertainment like taverns, brothels, bearbaiting and visits to insane asylums. We'll also talk about how we may still be able to relate to the characters in Shakespeare's plays, most of all focusing on Hamlet and his indicision and insanity. Finally we'll discuss whether or not Shakespeare's plays have universal value.
Shakespeare: Hamlet (New Swan Shakespeare Advanced Series, general editor Bernard Lott, first published 1968/this edition 2008)
Act 1
Scene 1: The change of the guards + the ghost of the late King Hamlet.
Scene 2: King Claudius and Queen Gertrude try to make Hamlet get over his father's death and accept that his uncle has married the queen and is now the new king. Hamlet is not pleased.
Scene 3: Laertes is off to France. Laertes and Polonius question Ophelia and her interest in Hamlet and vice versa. They warn her to preserve her honour.
Act 3
Scene i: The King, Queen and Polonius try to make Hamlet show his love for Ophelia to prove that is what made him mad. The "to be or not to be" soliloquy only.
Focus points and key concepts:
The chain of being, Aristotle's theory of drama (exposition, desis, hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorisis, lysis, catharsis, exodus), iambic pentameter, poetic drama, blank verse, etc
theatre tradition, monologue, soliloquy, aside, etc.
Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (1 page)
Sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (1 page)
Sonnet, quatrain, couplet, imagery, etc
Popular songs written as a sonnet (4 pages)
Additional tasks
Shakespearean language tasks - dialogue and poetry
Screencast on self-chosen passage from Hamlet, 8 min, practise for the oral exam
Additional material
PP with background info on Shakespeare and the world of theatre + The Elizabethan world
Film: Shakespeare in love, John Madden, 1999
Film: Hamlet, Franco Zeffirelli, 1990
Youtube:
How to talk like Shakespeare, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg-7Y1bEqXs
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Crash Course Literature 304, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpW1sHrBaU&t=53s
Alan Rickman - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130), 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Ja0Paz04s
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day" | Read by Harriet Walter, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUV7kE4A8hc
Judi Dench - Sonnet 116 - 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' - 4K, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tnLWQv58Q
Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part 1: Crash Course Literature 203, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My14mZa-eq8
Hamlet Summary (Act 1 Scene 1) - Nerdstudy, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPC57q8nsQg
Hamlet Summary (Act 1 Scene 2) - Nerdstudy, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WSWTqYZDw
GEN Z SHAKESPEARE - HAMLET, 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73SlkzUrbAU
Hamlet Summary (Act 1 Scene 3) - Nerdstudy, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAYcl053iE
Kernestof:
- det engelske sprogs grammatik, udtale, ortografi og tegnsætning
- ordforråd, herunder orddannelse og idiomer
- principper for tekstopbygning og tekstsammenhæng
- standardsprog og variation, herunder elementer af det engelske sprogs udvikling
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- uddrag af værker af Shakespeare
- væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie
- væsentlige sproglige, historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og USA samt andre engelsksprogede regioner.
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