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Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama

Question 3 • 26-27 Ignite English 12 NG KY-English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Polonius:My lord, he’s going to his mother’s closet: Behind the arras I’ll convey myself To hear the process; I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home; And, as you said, and wisely was it said, ’Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, Since nature makes them partial, should o’er-hear The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege: I’ll call upon you ere you go to bed And tell you what I know.

Answer
h
he represents suspicion.
h
he is loyal to King Claudius.
h
he predicts Hamlet’s behavior.
h
he practices deception.
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