Intro to Hamlet for academy

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Some Hamlet Facts


Rank of plays by lines

A Comedy of Errors 1787A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2192The Tempest 2283 Macbeth 2349 Julius Caesar 2591 Romeo and Juliet 3099 Hamlet 4042 lines


Some Famous Hamlets


Ira Aldridge

Judith Anderson

Alan Bates

John Barrymore

Sarah Bernhardt

Edwin Booth

Junius Brutus Booth

Kenneth Branagh

Richard Burbage

Richard Burton

Richard Chamberlain

Daniel Day-Lewis

Ralph Fiennes

Albert Finney

David Garrick

Mel Gibson

John Gielgud

Alec Guinness

Ethan Hawke

Tom Hulce

William Hurt

Henry Irving

Derek Jacobi

Alex Jennings

Stacy Keach

Edmund Kean

Val Kilmer

Randall Duk Kim

Ben Kingsley

Kevin Kline

Alec McCowen

Ian McKellan

Burgess Meredith

Chris Noth

Laurence Olivier

Peter O’Toole

Mandy Patinkin

Christopher Plummer

Jonathan Pryce

Michael Redgrave

Roger Rees

Ian Richardson

Mark Rylance

Maximilian Schell

Paul Scofield

Martin Sheen

Sarah Siddons

Robert Vaughan

Diane Venora

Christopher Walken

Sam Waterston

Orson Welles

Oskar Werner

Nicol Williamson

How many lines to memorize?


How many lines to memorize?

Juliet has 509 lines of dialogueRomeo has 581 Macbeth has 681 Othello has 860Hamlet has 1422


Word Frequency


good 109come 104king 67love 66speak 63man 52say 52father 51think 47see 46time 45heaven 43tell 43

death 37look 36night 36mother 35play 35soul 34hear 33life 32God 31nothing 30pray 30heart 29hold 29

leave 28dead 27matter 27nature 27Queen 26sweet 25thing 25earth 24world 24eyes 23head 23done 22


FAMOUS LINES FROM HAMLET


O that this too too solid flesh would melt


O that this too too solid flesh would melt Frailty, thy name is woman!


O that this too too solid flesh would melt Frailty, thy name is woman! Foul deeds will rise



Neither a borrower nor a lender be



Neither a borrower nor a lender be This above all, to thine own self be true



Neither a borrower nor a lender be This above all, to thine own self be true It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance



Neither a borrower nor a lender be This above all, to thine own self be true It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance Something is rotten in the state of Denmark



Neither a borrower nor a lender be This above all, to thine own self be true It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance Something is rotten in the state of Denmark There are more things in heaven and earth…than are dreamt of in your philosophy


The time is out of joint.


The time is out of joint. Brevity is the soul of wit…


The time is out of joint. Brevity is the soul of wit… More matter, with less art



Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.



Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. What a piece of work is a man!



Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. What a piece of work is a man! …there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so



Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. What a piece of work is a man! …there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so … the devil hath power t’assume a pleasing shape



Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. What a piece of work is a man! …there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so … the devil hath power t’assume a pleasing shape The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King


To be, or not to be, that is the question


To be, or not to be, that is the question Suit the action to the word, the word to the action


To be, or not to be, that is the question Suit the action to the word, the word to the action The lady doth protest too much, methinks



How all occasions do inform against me…



How all occasions do inform against me… Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio



How all occasions do inform against me… Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio Sweets to the sweet! .



How all occasions do inform against me… Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio Sweets to the sweet! There’s a divinity that shapes our ends



How all occasions do inform against me… Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio Sweets to the sweet! There’s a divinity that shapes our ends …there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow



How all occasions do inform against me… Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio Sweets to the sweet! There’s a divinity that shapes our ends …there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow Good night, sweet Prince.


THE PRINTING HISTORY OF HAMLET


QUARTO 1 1603


Quarto 2 1605


First Folio 1623

Published 7 years after Shakespeare died

Contains 36 plays

Half had not previously been published, including Macbeth, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew.

Only 200 copies of the book, which sold for 20 shillings (about $200 in 1623) are thought to exist.


A copy of the book recently sold for £2.5 million(about $4 million)


Quarto 2


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O

int. Expressing (according to intonation) surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, hesitation, etc.

Used mainly in imperative, optative, or exclamatory sentences or phrases, as in O take me back again!, O for another glimpse of it!, O the pity of it!, O dear!; often also emphatically in O yes, O no, O indeed, etc

The Oxford English Dictionary


Subtext

sub⋅text /ˈ–noun the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.


Tone

A particular quality, pitch,

modulation, or inflexion of the voice expressing or indicating affirmation, interrogation, hesitation, decision, or some feeling or emotion; vocal expression.

--The Oxford English Dictionary


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StressRelative loudness or force of vocal utterance; a greater degree of vocal force characterizing one syllable as compared with other syllables of the word, or one part of a syllable as compared with the rest; stress-accent. Also, superior loudness of voice as a means of emphasizing one or more of the words of a sentence more than the rest.

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I didn’t say he killed our King


Some lines from Hamlet


LADY, SHALL I LIE IN YOUR LAP? (lusty)


MY FATHER’S SPIRIT—IN ARMS(curious)


I SHALL OBEY, MY LORD.(sadly)


MURDER MOST FOUL.

(frightened)


I LOVE THEE BEST, OH, MOST BEST, BELIEVE IT.

(lusty)


WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS A MAN!

(awestruck)


DO NOT BELIEVE HIS VOWS.

(calmly)


OH, I AM SLAIN!

(frightened)


WHO'S THERE?

(angry)


DENMARK'S A PRISON

(sadly)


O, THAT THIS TOO TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT.

(exhausted)


FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN!(lusty)


GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!

(angry)


GET THEE TO A NUNNERY.(lusty)


I AM TOO MUCH IN THE SUN.

(exhausted)


NAY, LET’S FOLLOW HIM.

(excited)


THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT.

(joking)


BUT SOFT, BEHOLD! LO, WHERE IT COMES AGAIN!(whispering)


TIS BITTER COLD, AND I AM SICK AT HEART.

(shivering)


MAN DELIGHTS NOT ME(regret)


I MUST BE CRUEL ONLY TO BE KIND.

(lusty)


BY HEAVEN, I'LL MAKE A GHOST OF HIM THAT LETS ME.

(misery)


NOW I COULD DRINK HOT BLOOD!(excited)


ALAS, POOR YORICK! I KNEW HIM, HORATIO.

(distraught)


I DOUBT SOME FOUL PLAY: WOULD THE NIGHT WERE COME!

(sadly)


MY FATHER'S SPIRIT IN ARMS! ALL IS NOT WELL!

(fear)


I SHALL, IN ALL MY BEST, OBEY YOU, MADAM.

(angrily)


I SHALL, IN ALL MY BEST, OBEY YOU, MADAM

(proudly)



(respectfully)


I SHALL, IN ALL MY BEST, OBEY YOU, MADAM(nervously)


THE REST IS SILENCE

(relief)


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