Friday, Oct 5 Hamlet assessment

Reminders: vocabulary 2 is due Tuesday at the beginning of class. As well, your typed introduction to the paper is due as well on Tuesday.
In class: Hamlet assessment. For those of you who actually are looking at this, as you have been requested on Thursday to do, the assessment today will be based upon plot. (See below)  The test is designed to be - or not to be- instructional.  However, you will see the excerpts from the individual acts on Tuesday. This will allow you more time to review and getting organized for your paper.
Next Tuesday, October 9:  Act assessment; review your sheets. (Jamichael, you are excused from this.)
 Tuesday, October 9: Hamlet paper introducion
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE PLAY OR PAPERR, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTACT ME.   dmpalond@frontiernet.net
Monday, October 15  final paper due

 Hamlet-------reviewing the plot. Below you will find 13 plot items. Please number  them as they appear in the play. Note how textual material has been incorporated.

________Hamlet talks with his ghost father on the ramparts, where the young prince first learns that his father, King Hamlet, had been murdered by his Uncle Claudius, who had put poison in his ear while sleeping, and not a natural death by a serpent.

____________Polonius gives his son Laertes permission to head back to university, but Claudius and Hamlet’s mother Gertrude ask Hamlet to stay at Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Incidentally, Claudius has just informed Hamlet that fathers die; so get over it.

___________ Laertes is back in town, after having learned of his father’s death. He’s out for revenge. Claudius takes advantage of the situation and beguiles Laertes by insinuating that if he speaks truly- and really loved his father- he has a plan to get rid of Hamlet. Best of all, everyone will think it an accident.

__________  Fortinbras, king of Norway and son of the late eponymous king, announces: “ Let four captains / Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, / To have proved most royal ; and for his passage, / The soldier’s music and the rite of war / Speak loudly for him.”

__________ Hamlet speaks with the actors about inserting some lines into their play, with the objective that he will be able to ascertain by Claudius’ reaction whether he is guilty of having killed Hamlet’s father.

__________ Hamlet has a conversation with the gravedigger and discovers that the skull in grave belonged to the late king’s court jester: Alas poor Yorick

__________ Gertrude informs Claudius and Laertes, who have already hatched their plan, that Ophelia “…her garments, heavy with their drink, / Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay / To a muddy death.”

__________ Polonius is stabbed by Hamlet: “How now, a rat. Dead for a ducat, dead.”

__________ Bernardo and Francisco inform Horatio that a figure “fair and warlike in form” had been seen on the ramparts.

_________ Claudius watches the play with the inserted lines and announces, “Give me some light. Away!”

_________ Hamlet tells Laertes that he “loved Ophelia…Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum.”

_________ Hamlet relates to Horatio how he “Fingered [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s] packet, and in fine withdrew / …to unfold / Their grand commission.”

________  Gertrude drinks of the poison meant for Hamlet.