Hamlet: Appearance and Reality Flashcards
‘Something is _______ in the ______ of Denmark’
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
‘The play’s the ______, wherein I’ll _____ the ____________ of the king’
‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’
‘To __ or not to __, that is the __________’
‘To be or not to be, that is the question’
‘O _______, _________, smiling damned ________!’
‘O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!’
A1 S5 (Hamlet about Claudius)
‘Assume a _______ if you have it ____’
‘Assume a virtue if you have it not’
A3 S4 (Hamlet to Gertrude’
‘God hath given you one ____ and you ______ yourselves __________’
‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another’
A3 S1
What act and scene does Claudius refer to Hamlet as:
‘Our son’ + ‘My son’
‘Our son’ - A5 S2
‘My son’ - A1 S1
‘The ____ within a ____ tends to _________ the normal barriers between the _______ and the ______’
‘The play within a play tends to dissolve the normal barriers between the fictive and the real’
Maynard Mack (20th)
‘I’ll ______ my daughter to him’
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’
‘I ____________ am not in __________ but mad in _______’
‘I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft’
‘Hamlet’s _________ merely disguised the ______ in the same way ______ disguised conscious ________’
‘Hamlet’s madness merely disguised the truth in the same way dreams disguised conscious realities’
Freud (20th)
Hamlet’s madness masks the reality of his grief, his suspicion, and his desire for revenge
‘The _________ that did ____ thy fathers life now ________ his ______’
‘The serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown’
A1 S5
‘Two ______, but to one _____’
‘Two dishes, but to one table’
A4 S3
Dumb-show performance A3 S2 in Royal Shakespeare 2009 production
- The camera focuses on the king’s blank/emotionless expression as the murder is displayed
- Hamlet uses a prop camera to pan on the king and queen and watch their reactions
- Hamlet points a finger at the king in an accusatory tone, interrupting the show
Display of Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in Kenneth Branagh 1996
- Hamlet speaks to a two-way mirror which Polonius and Claudius are hidden behind
(mirror=deception/reality+appearance) - Hamlet appears calm and controlled rather than mad
- Hamlet pulls out a small sword and points it at the mirror
‘___________ shows every sign of being an excellent ___________ and king’
‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent diplomatist and king’
G.Wilson Knight
Hamlets interaction with the ghost in 2018 Andrew Scott production
ACT 1 SCENE 4:
- Contemporary production
- Hamlet is in a control room and the ghost appears on the security footage
- speaks to the ghost through a speakerphone
- Ghost beckons Hamlet through the camera
After Hamlet agrees to stay at Elsinore, what media photo op is he forced to participate in in 2017 Scott?
- He begrudgingly takes a picture holding a glass of wine with Claudius + Gertrude
- Shows how they are a family all about image and reputation
'’my father _____ within’s ____ hours’
‘my father died within’s two hours’
- Metatheatrical = OKH’s death is revealed LITERALLY 2 hours ago in the play (draws attention to the reality of the play)
- Sarcasm/disbelief over his mothers swift remarriage
- The extent of Hamlet’s grief, unable to accept his father’s death
‘With an ______________ and a ___________ eye’
‘With an auspicious and a drooping eye’
Claudius
- one eye weeping while another eye smiling (celebrating his remarriage while also mourning his brother)
- duplicitous nature
