Hamlet1.Fall 2018.pptx - Hamlet Quiz 1. What are the sentries guarding against? Hint: answer isn’t the ghost. 2. How did Hamlet’s father really die? The

Hamlet Quiz 1.What are the sentries guarding against?Hint:answer isn’t the ghost. 2.How did Hamlet’s father really die? 3.Why are Rosencrantz and

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Guildenstern in Denmark? 4.Where is Laertes headed when he leaves Ophelia and Polonius? 5.What is visibly impressive about the First Player’s speech, mentioned by both Polonius and Hamlet afterwards? 1

Sarah Bernhardt 2

Lawrence Olivier 3

Richard Burton 4

Derek Jacobi 5

Mel Gibson 6

Kenneth Branagh 7

Adrian Lester 8

Ethan Hawke 9

David Tennant 10

Jude Law 11

Benedict Cumberbatch 12

“I am not a girly man” 13

Revenge Genre • Revenger protagonist, villain antagonist – Murder in past, villain in power, revenger hides his knowledge with “antic disposition,” revenge taken in play within play (PWP) in some instances. Revenger wants justice, seeking “wild justice” (Francis Bacon) produces ambivalence between him and villain. • MerchantShylock as revenger v. villain complicates his role; revenge meant to be taken in court of law (version of PWP). • TitusVictim not dead, protagonist is also villain/murderer from beginning, doubled revengers. • HamletProblems seem absent: victim dead, identifies villain, revenger swears speedy justice. But no . . . 14

Samuel Taylor Coleridge • "Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should be impelled, at last, by mere accident, to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so." – STC,15

• Explains his obsession with Gertrude’s sexuality and his inability to kill Claudius immediately, as he has promised to do. • Infantile, pre-ego needs and satisfactions; post-ego, aware that others (father) interfere or interrupt satisfaction; rivalry over breast/mother>>>Make Daddy Go Away, Be Not Here • Repressed as ego develops. If anything threatens to lift the repression, such as wanting to avenge his father by killing the new husband to his mother (Father/Uncle), the mature adult understanding of the above is misunderstood in sexual terms: sexual desire and patricide. This unrepressed thought is unbearable, results inSomething Missing: Freud, Oedipal Complex 16

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an “objective correlative;” in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particularemotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.. . . Hamlet (the man) is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excessof the facts as they appear. . . . Hamlet is up against the difficulty that his disgust is occasioned by his mother, but that his mother is not an adequate equivalent of it . . . . It is thus a feeling which he cannot understand; he cannotSomething Missing: Eliot, Objective Correlative 17

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