Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama

Question 2 • TX-English IV

Which details from the passage support the idea that actors should try to represent people as they really are? Check all that apply.

Answer

“with this special observance”

“o’erstep not the modesty of nature”

“anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing”

“both at the first and now”

“to hold . . . the mirror up to nature”

Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations

Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations

Hamlet, Part 3: Figurative Language and Allusions