Turn to ACT 3 Scene 1 in Hamlet
I need volunteer actors to play these roles:
 King Claudius
 Queen Gertrude
 Rosencrantz
 Guildenstern
 Polonius
 Ophelia
 Hamlet
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TO Be Worksheet
Practice Formalist (New) Criticism and
closely read the text – looking for
connotations of words especially
 DIDLS= Tone …as you read
 No Fear Shakespeare…
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 http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_138.
html
Critical Analysis on the scene
Mrs. Bell will read you sections of the
critical analysis…
 Then we will watch the Branagh version
of the scene and evaluate
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Simpsons’ Hamlet
http://paoloesquivel.multiply.com/video/ite
m/4
Green Eggs and Hamlet
I ask to be, or not to be.
That is the question, I ask of me.
This sullied life, it makes me shudder.
My uncle's boffing dear, sweet mother.
Would I, could I take my life?
Could I, should I, end this strife?
Should I jump out of a plane?
Or throw myself before a train?
Should I from a cliff just leap?
Could I put myself to sleep?
Shoot myself, or take some poison?
Maybe try self immoloition?
To shuffle off this mortal coil,
I could stab myself with a fencing foil.
Slash my wrists while in the bath?
Would it end my angst and wrath?
To sleep, to dream, now there's the rub.
I could drop a toaster in my tub.
Would all be glad, if I were dead?
Could I perhaps kill them instead?
This line of thought takes consideration –
For I'm the king of procrastination.
Parody of To Be Soliloquy
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/Pretzel/Parod
y.html
 Write your own parody of the To Be
soliloquy – keep with the same rhythm
and rhetorical pattern (can even use
same phrases)
 You will have 10 min to make it as long
as you can and then share in your
group.
TO Be memorization challenge
You have 5 min to memorize as much of
the soliloquy as possible…
 Then I will give you the soliloquy with
sections missing and see how much you
can fill in…
 A Prize to the winner!!!
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