Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Hamlet
Play within
play
Hamlet – executive summary
10 A troupe of players arrive
Hamlet
The murder
Play within
of Gonzago
play
Hamlet – executive summary
11 Play contains lines which Hamlet writes to
expose Claudius and Gertrude
Hamlet – executive summary
11 Play contains lines which Hamlet writes to
expose Claudius and Gertrude
Hamlet – executive summary
12 Hamlet rages at his inability to kill Claudius
Hamlet – executive summary
13 Polonius accidentally killed by Hamlet
Hamlet – executive summary
14 Claudius wants Hamlet to go to England
Hamlet – executive summary
15 …where he will be executed
Hamlet – executive summary
16 Ophelia has been driven mad by father’s
death and Hamlet’s rejection of her
Hamlet – executive summary
17 Laertes, Ophelia’s brother, swears revenge
on Hamlet
Hamlet – executive summary
18 Hamlet returns to Danish court: Claudius
suggests a duel between Laertes and Hamlet…
Hamlet – executive summary
19 …where the King will offer Hamlet a
poisoned goblet
Hamlet – executive summary
20 Ophelia dies
Hamlet – executive summary
21 Hamlet muses on death at Yorick’s grave
Hamlet – executive summary
22 Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are killed
Hamlet – executive summary
22 Queen accidentally poisons herself
Hamlet – executive summary
23 Both duellists wounded by poisoned sword:
Laertes reveals plot and Hamlet kills king
Hamlet – executive summary
24 Laertes dies
Hamlet – executive summary
25 Fortinbras arrives from Norway and
discovers the carnage
Hamlet – executive summary
25 Hamlet dies
What a piece of work is a man
In reason
In faculty
In form and moving
In action
In apprehension
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty
In form and moving
In action
In apprehension
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving
In action
In apprehension
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving express, admirable
In action
In apprehension
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving express, admirable
In action like angel
In apprehension
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving express, admirable
In action like angel
In apprehension like a god
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving express, admirable
In action like angel
In apprehension like a god
What a piece of work is a man
In reason noble
In faculty infinite
In form and moving express, admirable
In action like angel
In apprehension like a god
Strengths
• Quick smooth royal succession
• Bright young prince
Is something rotten in the state of
Denmark?
SWOT analysis
Weaknesses
• Bright young prince is mentally unstable
• Foolish royal advisers
• Ambitious Fortinbras on border with army
• Clumsiness with poisoned objects
• Polonius has neglected swimming lessons
Is something rotten in the state of
Denmark?
SWOT analysis
Opportunities
• Plenty of opportunities to kill king Claudius
• Lots of business for undertakers
• Ditto for poison makers
Is something rotten in the state of
Denmark?
SWOT analysis
Threats
• Fortinbras
• Tendency of Danish aristocracy to suicide
• Sins will bring nemesis and slaughter upon royal
household
Ophelia clever
Horatio
Gertrude
mad sane
Rosencranz, Guilderstern
Polonius
stupid
Ophelia Hamlet? clever
Horatio
Gertrude
mad sane
Rosencranz, Guilderstern
Polonius
stupid
Ophelia clever
Horatio
Hamlet?
Gertrude
mad sane
Rosencranz, Guilderstern
Polonius
stupid
Ophelia clever
Horatio Hamlet?
Gertrude
mad sane
Rosencranz, Guilderstern
Polonius
stupid
Ophelia clever
Horatio
Hamlet?
Gertrude
mad sane
Rosencranz, Guilderstern
Polonius
stupid
ye ende
More of this kind of thing: http://www.myrtle.co.uk/blog