Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations Answers

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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Take a look at these images from Sir Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Hamlet.

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

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

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

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?

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. Polonius: . . . [To OPHELIA.] Read on this book; That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness.

In his adaptation of Hamlet, Jonathan Price plays both Hamlet and the ghost. Which methods might Jonathan Price use to make it clear to the audience that he is playing both characters? Choose three answers.changing his tone of voicechanging his costumechanging his facial expressionchanging his posturechanging his stage make-up