Thursday, 10/17: Hamlet 1.2

Reading: Doubling Language (absent people will need to get a hard copy of this in the classroom)

Terminology: Aside, Soliloquy, Allusion

1.2

• Setting: Hamlet's castle is named Elsinore
• Character: Claudius
• Watch this video
• Reread Claudius's speech (1.2.1-39)
• Answer the questions
• Hamlet's First Soliloquy

Homework due Monday, 10/21: Read and annotate 1.3-1.4 and Hamlet's first soliloquy. I will be grading the annotations. Please be thorough. Follow the directions on each page. Do not use a highlighter.