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Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his landsWhich he stood seiz’d of, to
Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?
Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.actsscenessentencesstage directionsrising actions
Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.
Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?
In a drama, how do audiences learn about a character? Select four answers.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Hamlet:] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on ’t: Frailty, thy name is woman!A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . . .
Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Enter Ghost.Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.Bernardo: It would be spoke to.Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?
Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who falls from a high status, which makes Hamlet an example of a(n):
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?
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