Transcript Hamlet - Weebly

 Reading/Acting out both Acts
aloud in class
 Group work- Discussion Questions
 Working on Projects if time allows
 Homework: Study for vocabulary
test unit 8 & Reading Act IV Scenes
III-IV
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Act 4 Summary
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Act 2.1 Character List
 Gertrude
 Claudius
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 Gertrude tells Claudius about her encounter with Hamlet;
she says that Hamlet is crazy & has killed Polonius.
 Claudius notes Hamlet could have killed him.
 Claudius tells Gertrude that they must ship Hamlet to
England & find a way to explain Hamlet’s actions to the court
& people.
 He calls Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, tells them about the
murder, & sends them to find Hamlet.
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1. Who tells the King about Polonius?
2. What promise to Hamlet does Gertrude keep in her
second statement?
3. What is Claudius’s first reaction to the news of
Polonius’s death?
4. What excuse does Claudius offer for not controlling
Hamlet with a stronger hand?
5. Explain Claudius’s comparison of this laxity and
disease.
6. What does the Queen say Hamlet is doing while she
and the King are talking?
7. On what errand does the King send Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern?
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Act 4.2 Character List
 Hamlet
 Rosencrantz
 Guildenstern
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 Hamlet hides Polonius’ body
 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up and ask Hamlet
what he has done with the body.
They confront him, asking "[w]hat have you
done my lord, with the dead body? (IV.ii.5).
 Hamlet, scornfully contemptuous of the two
courtiers, calls Rosencrantz a "sponge,” and is
outraged that they dare demand an answer from
him: "what replication should be made by the
son of a king?" (IV.ii.12-13).
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 Hamlet refuses to give them a straight
answer.
 "The body is with the king, but the king is
not with the body" (IV.ii.27-28).
 Although this makes perfect sense -Polonius is with the King, Hamlet's father,
but Claudius remains alive -- the courtiers
believe him to be incoherent. .
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 1. In the first line what is “Safely
stow’d”?
 2. Why does Hamlet call Rosencrantz a
sponge?
 3. To what else besides a sponge does
Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and
 Guildenstern?
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