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Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar
Proseminar: Literature and Culture Studies autumn term 2008

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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preparation:
editions - Shakespeare dictionaries - reading Hamlet (study questions and quizzes) - links - questions

editing Hamlet

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

 

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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.

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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)

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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.

Richard Morris, Assyrians (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith, 1968).
[special thanks to: Tanya Gough, [
http://www.bardcentral.com/]

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