... ... . Tuesday (MM) 8-10: pictures of first and second meeting Tuesday (AO) 10-12: pictures of third meeting Thursday (LB) 10-12: pictures of fourth meeting ... . .. . ... . . . Richard
Morris, Assyrians (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith,
1968). ... September 08
Universität
Basel, Englisches Seminar
Proseminar:
Literature and Culture Studies autumn term 2008
bookmark
this page - it will be updated continually during our
course
preparation:
editions
- Shakespeare
dictionaries
- reading
Hamlet
(study questions and quizzes) - links
- questions
editing
Hamlet
In our course we will use the New
Cambridge Shakespeare edition (available at Labyrinth):
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Ed. Philip Edwards. The New Cambridge Shakespeare.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
There are many Shakespeare editions on the net.
Why not have a look at the "original text", at Folio
(What
is a Folio?)
and Quarto editions on the web?
The best sites are the following:
Hamlet,
Folio 1623,
facsimile ed.
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=hamlet_f1&PagePosition=1]
also as pdf-file at: [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1142&Itemid=27] (Sept. 2008 )
Folio
(1623),
University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]
Hamlet:
1st and 2nd Quarto, Folio [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Ham/index.html]
The
Enfolded Hamlet (F1 and Q2 version, combined or single), Bernice W. Kliman [http://global-language.com/enfolded.html]
See also on this site: editing
Hamlet
Do you need to look up a word?
C. T.
Onions, A
Shakespeare Glossary
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0068] (Nov. 2001)
Alexander Schmidt: Shakespeare
Lexicon
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0079] (Nov. 2001)
Or do you think you need a modern paraphrase?
Hamlet,
parallel with modern paraphrase. Lynch Multimedia [http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/Hamlet.html] (Jan. 2002)
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Do you need help while reading the play?
Or do you want to refresh your memory? Here are some
links:
Act I
Study questions (and model answers) to act
I.
from:
Ian Delaney, A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Shakespearean Education 1999)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041023021258/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/quest1.html]
(Sept. 2008)
An interactive quiz
on act I
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-1-1.htm]
(March 2002)
another quiz
on act I
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-1-2.htm]
(March 2002)
a third quiz
on act I
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-1-3.htm](March
2002)
A quiz on the play's
characters:
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz.htm]
(March 2002)
Who said that? quotations
from act I
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamlet-qt-1.htm]
(March 2002)
See scene I.4.
virtually performed in the
Globe:
Staging
a scene from Hamlet [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/stage/scenesubj.html]
(March 2002)
Look at some paintings (from 1700 onward) and pictures of
famous actors playing Hamlet:
[http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/collections/art/ayartdb/ayartdb.htm]
(March 2002)
Act II
Study questions (and model answers)
to act II
from:
Ian Delaney, A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Shakespearean Education 1999)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041023021258/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/quest2.html]
(March 2002)
An interactive quiz
on act II
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-2-1.htm]
(March 2002)
another interactive quiz
on act II:
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-2-2.htm]
(March 2002)
interactive quiz
on quotations from act II:
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamlet-qt-2.htm]
(March 2002)
interactive quiz
on Norway and Denmark
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz2.htm]
(March 2002)
Act III
Study questions (and model answers) to
act III
from:
Ian Delaney, A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Shakespearean Education 1999)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041023021258/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/quest3.html](Sept.
2008)
An interactive quiz
on act III
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-3-1.htm]
(March 2002)
another interactive quiz
on act III
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-3-2.htm]
(March 2002)
and a third interactive quiz
on act III
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-3-3.htm]
(March 2002)
Act IV
Study questions (and model answers) to
act IV
from:
Ian Delaney, A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Shakespearean Education 1999)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041023021258/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/quest4.html]
(Sept. 2008)
An interactive quiz
on act IV
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-4.htm]
(March 2002)
Act V
Study questions (and model answers) to
act V
from:
Ian Delaney, A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet
(Shakespearean Education 1999)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041023021258/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/quest5.html]
(March 2002)
interactive quiz
on act V.1
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-5-1.htm]
(March 2002)
interactive quiz
on act V.2
[http://www.teachersfirst.com/quiz/hamquiz-5-2.htm]
(March 2002)
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Links
For everything related to Shakespeare try: Shakespeare
in Europe
The best sites for Hamlet are:
Hamlet
on the Ramparts
[http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/welcome.htm]
and, of course, our own: ShinE:
Hamlet
Delville, Michel and Michel, Pierr. "Introduction
to Hamlet"
Engl. version by Eriks Uskalis. (University of
Liège)
[http://www.littanam.ulg.ac.be/hamletenglish.html]
(contains a short biography of Shakespeare, a chronology of
the plays, Hamlet plot summary and survey of themes,
comments on the soliloquies, etc.)
Johnston, Ian. Introductory
Lecture on Shakespeare's
Hamlet"
[http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/hamlet.htm]
stage history:
Hamlet:
stage history
[http://www.georgedillon.com/theatre/hamlet_programme_stage_history.shtml]
Who
is Hamlet?
(about actors who played Hamlet) Shakespeare
Magazine, vol. 6, issue 1, Winter
02.
[http://www.shakespearemag.com/winter02/hamlet.asp]
(March 2002)
If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask
your instructors:
Ladina
Bezzola - Lucia Michalcak - Andrea Ochsner - Markus
Marti -
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FORTINBRAS
A gloomy castle. Six corpses are scattered around on the
floor. Some of them look
as though they have been
poisoned;
others
have been run through with
swords.
HORATIO
stands
looking at them. He has a stupid look on his face.
FORTINBRAS
enters.
HORATIO
pays
him no attention, but goes on staring at the bodies. Then he
begins to speak.
HORATIO:
Goodnight,
sweet prince - -
Before he can get any further, FORTINBRAS
turns
around and walks out muttering to himself.
FORTINBRAS:
Fucking
Danes.
[special thanks to: Tanya Gough, [http://www.bardcentral.com/]
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