Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make,— Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
In a drama, how do audiences learn about a character? Select four answers.
After analyzing the context, what is the next step the reader should take to determine the meaning of an unknown word?
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