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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Step Four READING SHAKESPEARE.WEB William Shakespeare B2.1 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark K E Y S William Shakespeare Page 16 – exercise 2 Page 7 – exercise 1 1 The old King Hamlet 2 Polonius 1 Six 3 The old king’s funeral and 2 Because of the plague in London. Gertrude’s marriage 3 The best tragic actor in 4 The old king Hamlet Shakespeare’s time. 5 Just before midnight 4 Between 1599 and 1602. 6 Claudius 5 Unofficial transcripts of Shakespeare’s plays. Page 16 – exercise 3 (suggested answers) 1 sensitive 2 ambitious CHAPTER 1 3 independent Page 10 – exercise 1 Page 17 – exercise 4 A 3 B 6 C 1 D 5 E 4 F 2 1 refuse to do Page 10 – exercise 2 agree, decide, expect, hope, 1 Night time offer, seem 2 Hamlet and the ghost of his father old King Hamlet 2 want somebody to do 3 (suggested answer) The ghost has allow, ask, expect, help, just appeared. persuade, tell 4 (suggested answer) The ghost is 3 keep doing going to speak to Hamlet. enjoy, (not) mind, practise, Page 10 – exercise 3 spend time, stop, suggest 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 A 4 let somebody do Page 16 – exercise 1 help, make 1 C 2 E 3 A 4 D 5 F 6 B K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S Page 17 – exercise 5 Horatio, who was a close friend of 1 suggested 2 persuaded 3 decided Hamlet’s, that they had seen a ghost 4 refused 5 stop 6 spend 7 enjoyed on the battlements. 8 wanted/hoped 3 Hamlet’s letters to Ophelia, which Page 18 – exercise 6 she kept in a secret place, generally finished with a short love poem. 1 act 2 appreciate 3 celebrate 4 Hamlet, who thought he might have 4 compete 5 conclude 6 confess imagined the ghost, was confused 7 confirm 8 converse 9 crown and unsure of what to do. 10 decide 11 educate 12 explain 5 Ophelia, who was sewing at the 13 express 14 hesitate 15 inform time, was shocked when Hamlet 16 invite 17 permit 18 react suddenly appeared in her room. 19 satisfy 20 suspect 6 The death of King Hamlet, which Page 18 – exercise 7 was completely unexpected, 1 appreciate/appreciated 2 crowned surprised everyone at court. 3 concluded 4 suspicion 5 expression Page 28 – exercise 4 Page 18 – exercise 8 1 expecting 2 wait 3 injured 1 D 2 G 3 J 4 H 5 A 6 I 7 B 8 C 4 damaged 5 sensitive 6 sensible 9 E 10 F 7 borrow 8 lend 9 took 10 picked up 11 gain 12 win 13 lost Page 19 – exercise 9 14 missing 1 on 2 its 3 but/although 4 very 5 out 6 with 7 one 8 where Revenge in Elizabethan Drama CHAPTER 2 Page 34 – exercise 1 Page 20 – exercise 1 1 The Spanish Tragedy 2 Between 1588 and 1593 1 A 2 B 3 B 4 A 3 Violence was shown on stage in Page 20 – exercise 2 Elizabethan revenge tragedies. In 1; 2; 4 Roman times it took place off stage. 4 Because law court procedures were Page 20 – exercise 3 often corrupt and inefficient. 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 Because his themes are universal Page 26 – exercise 1 and timeless. 1 C 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 D 6 B Page 34 – exercise 2 Page 27 – exercise 2 1 C 2 D 3 A 4 B 1 Hamlet refused to go to the wedding of his mother and Claudius, which had CHAPTER 3 taken place soon after old King Hamlet’s death. Page 35 – exercise 1 2 Two of the castle guards told 1 C 2 E 3 F 4 A 5 B 6 D 2 K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S Page 35 – exercise 2 Page 44 – exercise 6 1 nodded 2 bumped into 3 stabbed 1 A 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 A 6 B 7 A 8 B 4 mooching around 5 recite 9 A 10 B 6 catch ... out Page 44 – exercise 7 Page 35 – exercise 3 1 U 2 U 3 C 4 U 5 B 6 C 7 U 8 U 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 A 5 A 6 B 9 B 10 B Page 42 – exercise 1 Page 44 – exercise 8 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 A 6 B 7 B 8 B 1 cheer 2 find 3 going 4 cut Page 42 – exercise 2 5 lighting 6 catch 1 Hamlet Page 45 – exercise 10 2 Claudius and Gertrude 1 A 2 D 3 B 4 A 5 D 6 D 7 B 8 C 3 Gertrude 4 Polonius 5 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern CHAPTER 4 6 the main actor (in the company of Page 46 – exercise 1 actors) 1 C 2 F 3 A 4 E 5 B 6 D Page 42 – exercise 3 (Suggested Page 46 – exercise 2 answers) 1 sinners 2 summons 3 gestures 1 Why did Claudius invite 4 heir; throne 5 nunnery Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Elsinore? Page 46 – exercise 3 2 What did Claudius ask Rosencrantz 1 Ophelia and Hamlet and Guildenstern to do? 2 In a passage/In the castle 3 Where did Rosencrantz and 3 (suggested answer) Hamlet is Guildenstern see the actors? thinking, perhaps he’s worried. 4 Which speech did Hamlet ask the Ophelia is surprised or nervous. main actor to recite? 4 (suggested answer) Hamlet is going Page 43 – exercise 4 to speak to Ophelia. 1 Claudius could/might/may be a Page 46 – exercise 4 good king, but it’s too soon to say. 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 B 2 Hamlet must be a popular person at Page 54 – exercise 1 university because he has a lot of friends. 1 B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 D 6 A 3 Gertrude might/may not know that Page 55 – exercise 2 Claudius killed her first husband. 1 despite/in spite of 4 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can’t 2 However be very fit because they never do any 3 Despite exercise. 4 although/even though 5 Ophelia must love flowers because 5 despite/in spite of her room is always full of them. 3 K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S Page 55 – exercise 3 closely with researchers planning the 1 about 2 at 3 for 4 on 5 up 6 of reconstruction. Excavation of the site 7 about 8 on 9 for 10 like 11 to began in 1987, but it wasn’t until 1991 12 of 13 of 14 about 15 with 16 of that work began on the foundations. 17 to 18 with When Sam died in 1993 construction work had just started on the theatre Page 56 – exercise 4 itself. Three and a half years later in 1 was made of wood 1997 the Globe was ready to receive the 2 were given to public. 3 was destroyed in a fire So, what did the first Globe look like? 4 is situated on the Nobody knows for sure but we can 5 is traditionally celebrated get a good idea from picture maps, or Page 56 – exercise 5 panoramas, of the period. 1 T 2 T 3 B 4 T 5 B 6 C 7 C 8 B One in particular by Claes Van 9 B 10 B 11 T 12 B 13 B 14 C 15 T Visscher, who probably never visited 16 T 17 C 18 C 19 C 20 C 21 T London himself, clearly shows the architecture and location of the old Page 57 – exercise 7 Globe Theatre. In his panorama, the The Globe Theatre Globe is octagonal in shape. The original Globe was an Elizabethan In 1989 a small part of the Globe theatre that opened in 1599 in itself was excavated. From what they Southwark, on the south bank of the uncovered, archaeologists were able Thames, in an area now known as to conclude that it had actually been a Bankside. It was the third of three 20-sided, not 8-sided, building and had popular theatres located in the area, a diameter of 100 feet, that is about the other two being the Swan and 30.5 metres. the Rose. Like all the other theatres As regards the interior of in London, the Globe was closed Shakespeare’s theatre there are no down in 1642 by the Puritans, who pictures from the period in existence thought theatres encouraged immoral of it, but there is one of the Swan. In behaviour. 1596 a Dutch traveller called Johannes The project to rebuild the Globe was de Witt attended a play there and the idea of the American actor, director later made a sketch of the interior, and producer Sam Wanamaker. During which proved very useful for the his first visit to London in 1949, he went reconstruction of the Globe. However, in search of Shakespeare’s theatre, almost nothing survives to suggest but there was only an old sign on a what the stage of the theatre was like, wall that said: “This is on or around so the architects had to use evidence where Shakespeare had his Globe.” from existing buildings of the period. Twenty-one years later he founded an Huge amounts of research were done educational charity in order to raise to make sure that the theatre was as money for the building of a replica.
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