Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations Answers

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action

Which best describes a change an adaptation would make if Hamlet was set in modern times?

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet. Polonius: . . . [To OPHELIA.] Read on this book; That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness.

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In a well-known adaptation of Hamlet, one actor plays both Hamlet and the ghost. What is the effect of this adaptation?

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.. . . who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover’d country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Take a look at this image from Jonathan Price’s adaptation of Hamlet.Take a look at this image from Sir Lawrence Olivier’s adaptation of Hamlet.

Which factors should be considered when evaluating whether an adaptation is a success? Choose three answers.