Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1601 and is the most famous of all his tragedies.
The plot revolves around Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, who is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the king's advisor, love and then cast off his girlfriend whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two good friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
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LEARNING GOALS:
- analyse characters, symbols, themes, and elements of Shakespearean tragedy in Hamlet to make inferences about meaning
- read a play on the levels of plot, theme and character with growing fluency
- understand how stage directions and soliloquies are used to help convey meaning
- watch a variety of film versions of Hamlet , identifying and analyzing the perspectives and/or bias within these media texts, in order to demonstrate how they shape the play’s themes and help to convey meaning
- use a single controlling idea and connecting words to structure a multi-paragraph response on a unit test
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