Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater Answers

What best describes characterization?

Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who falls from a high status, which makes Hamlet an example of a(n):

Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?

In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Enter Ghost.Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.Bernardo: It would be spoke to.Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his landsWhich he stood seiz’d of, to the conqueror;

In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?

In a drama, how do audiences learn about a character? Select four answers.through the character’s own wordsthrough what other characters saythrough narration about the characterthrough the actions the character takesthrough the way others behave toward the character

Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it