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Shakespeare & Hamlet Class Notes Flashcards

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Full title:

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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Setting:

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Denmark

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(Royal Family of Denmark) King Hamlet (..): … king, “…”

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dead; good; warrior

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(Royal Family of Denmark) Queen Gertrude: …. wife

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king hamlet’s

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(Royal Family of Denmark) King Claudius: … brother, … gains …

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king hamlet’s; sneakily; throne

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(Royal Family of Denmark) prince hamlet: … and … son; …; never becomes …., although he …

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king hamlet and gertrude’s; protagonist; king; should be

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(danish nobility) Polonius: … to king, …, … children

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right hand man; widower; 2

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(danish nobility) laertes: … son, …

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Polonius’s; oldest

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(danish nobility) Ophelia: … daughter, …. girlfriend

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Polonius’s; Prince Hamlet’s

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(danish nobility) Horatio: …, … best friend, attends …

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court; Prince Hamlet’s; Wittenberg

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(Royal Family of Norway) King Fortinbras (…): killed by …., has ….

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dead; King Hamlet; brother

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(Royal Family of Norway) “Old Norway”: … brother, now …, …

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King Fortinbras’s; king; nameless

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(Royal Family of Norway) Prince Fortinbras: … son, should be … but is not

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King Fortinbras’s; king

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(key places, terms, etc) Elsinore: … in …

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castle; Denmark

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(key places, terms, etc) wittenberg: … and …, where …. started, …. is student here, … dies while he’s …. located in …., …. returns to find … as …, now married to …

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school; church; protestant reformation; prince hamlet; father; attending school; germany; hamlet; uncle; king; his mother (queen g)

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(key places, terms, etc) catholic vs. protestant: we don’t know which

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prince H. is

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(key places, terms, etc) England as …. to …, ally but paid that country for …

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tributary; denmark; protection

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the election: reason why

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claudius is king

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(origin story) Saxo Grammaticus (Saxo, the …) had responsibiity of writing …

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1st Danish history

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(origin story) Anglo-Saxons: danes were ..–> no belief in ..

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fatalists; after-life

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(origin story) due to fatalist outlook, good behavior and bravery was encouraged through appeal of

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good legacy

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(origin story) legacies were bestowed by

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poets

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(origin story) Saxo wrote book

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Gesta Danorem

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(origin story) canon: book composed of

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smaller books

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(origin story) gesta danorem meaning
deeds of the danes
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(origin story) in books 3 & 4 of gesta danorem is the original story of ...; in this version, ... brothers, ... and ..., both given .... over ... by ...
hamlet; 2; horvendill; feng; equal rule; Jutland; King Rorik
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(origin story) Horvendill is chosen because he is a ...., where Feng is chosen because he is a gifted ...
skilled warrior; politician
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(origin story) horvendill returns from .... in which he slays ....
Viking expedition; Koll, King of Norway
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(origin story) King Rorik gives Horvendill ... as thanks
his daughter, Gerutha's, hand
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(origin story) Horvendill and Gerutha have a son -->
Amleth
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(origin story) Horvendill is now a more ...
legitimate king figure
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(origin story) Feng, fearing that he had become ... as ... kills horvendill and convinces Gerutha that he has killed him for ..., claiming that Horvendill ....
delegitimitized; equal ruler; her protection; secretly hated her and her father
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(origin story) Feng is warping Horvendill's
legacy
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(origin story) Feng declares himself .... and Rorik ... of .. and ...
sole ruler of Jutland; dies; shock and grief
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(origin story) Amleth fears for his life and pretends to be
insane
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(origin story) Feng marries .... and puts Amleth's insanity to ... (including... Amleth with ...)
Gerutha; many tests; seducing; Feng's daughter
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(1583-1588) the ... written by ..
The Spanish Tragedy; Thomas Kyd
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(1583-1588) The Spanish Tragedy: one of the first ... in ...
revenge tragedies; Elizabethan Theater
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(1583-1588) The Spanish Tragedy features a ....
play-within-a-play
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(1583-1588) tragedies weren't ... at the time
popular
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(1583-1588) spanish tragedy had a ... character and a character with the name ...
ghost; Horatio
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(1588) Ur-Halet=
primordial hamlet
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(1588) primordial hamlet means
a before time hamlet
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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: we don't know who
the author is
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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: some people think it was shakespeare's
rough draft
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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: features a central character named
hamlet
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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: ghost that repeatedly shouts
"Hamlet, Revenge!"
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(1588) Ur-Hamlet: play was
hated
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(1603) - Quarto One- "Bad Quarto": Quarto, book folded into ..., ....
4 parts; pocket-sized
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(1603) - Quarto One- "Bad Quarto": contains a lot of ... from ..., but ...
lines; Hamlet; horribly written
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(1603) - Quarto One- "Bad Quarto": hamlet performed before
1603
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(1603) - Quarto One- "Bad Quarto": theory is that someone in play who wasn't Hamlet/who had seen play several times tried to .... to ...
publish play; make money
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(1605) Quarto Two- "Good Quarto": ... version of the text
longest
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(1605) Quarto Two- "Good Quarto": says it was made from
original and true copy
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(1605) Quarto Two- "Good Quarto": suspected that ... published this one
shakespeare
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(1623) First Folio: composed ... years after death of Shakespeare, result of Shakespeare's friend's .. and ...
7; grief; fear
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(1623) First Folio: 2 friends, actors: ... and ... compiled all of the original writings; no piece of lit had been ...., 1st time shakespeare became ...
john heminge; henry condill; printed this way before; literature
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(1623) First Folio: included ... of the ... plays written by shakespeare
36; 38
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(1623) First Folio: book that
gave us shakespeare
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(1623) First Folio: ... plays are offered in the First Folio only, including ..., ..., ..., ..., etc.
18; macbeth; ceaser; Twelfth Night; The Tempest
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(1623) First Folio: was ... when first published
$200
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(1623) First Folio: ... printed, ... remain, ... of which are in the Folger Shakespeare library in washington d.c.
500; 233; 82

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