Task 1:Just for fun, share the sonnet you found with a partner and tell them about it. Be prepared to read it out and explain what you think about it to the group.
Task 2:
We will continue our study of "Hamlet" with Acts 4.4 to 5, focusing on Laertes, Ophelia and Hamlet's return from England. We will watch Brannagh's production.
What do we learn about Hamlet and Ophelia from Act 4 scenes 5 & 6?
Re-read the Queen's description of Ophelia's death at the end of Act 4 scene 7. How has it been written to create sympathy for Ophelia but retain some doubt about the manner of her death?
Homework (7th November 2008):
Task 1: Contextual research
Find out about life in Elizabethan England. This could include information about religion, politics, monarchy, everyday life, crime or the family. You could start by going to:
Prepare notes to discuss in class.
BEWARE: The history of this period has, until recently been mainly based on what is called the "Whig" interpretation of the period. This is a largely Protestant version of the period written by the winners (Protestantism) of a religious conflict called the Reformation in which Catholicism was suppressed, often violently in England during this period (1517 - 1621).
I will be delivering a lecture about this to you shortly!
Task 2: What is a man?
Re-read Hamlet's soliloquy "How all occasions do inform against me" (Act 4 scene 4) and his letter to Horatio in Act 4 scene 6.
What do we learn about Hamlet and his circumstances from them?
Make notes on a side of A4 paper for next week.
Enjoy! Dr.M.
Image: Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, 1852.
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