Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction To Elizabethan Theater 100%

In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?

Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who falls from a high status, which makes Hamlet an example of a(n)

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother's wedding. Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. In the excerpt, Shakespeare characterizes Hamlet as?

What best describes characterization?

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear'd to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem'd him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal'd compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his lands Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror; What is the main purpose of Horatio's speech?

Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it

Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Check all that apply.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. [Hamlet:] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on 't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer,—married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . . . In this excerpt, Hamlet characterizes his mother as

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,— Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind. Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you? Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. What is the most likely reason that Shakespeare chose this point in the play to give Hamlet his first aside?

Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?