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summary the king of denmark, is dead and has been succeeded not by his son, hamlet, but by his brother, claudius. soon after the funeral, claudius marries his brother’s widow, gertrude. hamlet, still upset by his father’s death, sees the ghost of his father, who tells him that he was murdered by claudius. the ghost asks his son to avenge his death. hamlet pretends to go mad. polonius, the lord chamberlain, forbids his daughter, ophelia, to see hamlet. spied on by polonius and claudius, ophelia returns hamlet’s love letters and is violently rejected by him. a group of travelling actors arrive at the court. hamlet asks them to perform a play in which a king is murdered by his nephew. he hopes that the story, which is similar to the murder of his father by claudius, will force claudius to betray his guilt. hamlet is right: claudius is upset by …

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d birthday, in 1616. • his mother, mary arden, came from a higher social background than his father, who was a civil servant. • he went to a good school but did not attend university. • in 1582 he married anne hathaway and they had three children. from 1590, his plays began to be performed on the london stage. over a period of 23 years (1590–1613), he wrote 37 plays, sometimes writing three plays a year! he also wrote poetry, including a number of beautiful sonnets. some of his plays: the taming of the shrew (1591), richard iii (1592), a midsummer night’s dream (1594), romeo and juliet (1595), the merchant of venice (1596), henry v (1599), much ado about nothing (1599), julius caesar (1599), twelfth night (1600), hamlet (1601), othello (1604), king lear (1605), antony and cleopatra (1606), macbeth (1605), the tempest (1611). background and themes shakespeare’s plays are famous …

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scent into madness over hamlet’s unintentional murder of her father. • another theme of the play is disease and poison – ‘something is rotten in the state of denmark’. poison is the main instrument of death in the story. • a further theme is revenge. in a traditional revenge tragedy, the hero plans his revenge. in hamlet, the tragedy stems from the hero’s doubt and uncertainty. many lives would have been saved if hamlet had just killed his uncle earlier. • an interesting theme is destiny and fate – the appearance of the ghost is responsible for everything. does hamlet have a choice in what he does, or is there some great plan which makes everything inevitable? © pearson education limited 2006 penguin readers factsheets teacher’s notes hamlet by william shakespeare l e ve l 3 – p re -in te rm e d ia te h a m le …

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ult. say why. activities after reading the book put students into small groups. ask them to choose one scene from the play. ask them to choose parts and read the scene together. when they are ready, they act out the scene in front of the class. word list it will be useful for your students to know the new words found on page 56 of the reader. they are practised in he ‘before you read’ sections in the back of the book. (the definitions are based on those in the longman active study dictionary.) many films have been made of the play. the most well- known were made in: • 1948 – with laurence olivier as hamlet. it won 4 oscars, including best picture and best actor. • 1969 – with nicol williamson as hamlet and anthony hopkins as claudius. • 1996 – with kenneth branagh as hamlet and kate …

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does the ghost want hamlet to do? why? 2 put students into pairs. ask them to act out this imaginary conversation. student a: you are hamlet. tell ophelia about the ghost and your plans for revenge. student b: you are ophelia. you don’t think hamlet should listen to the ghost. tell him why. act 2 put students into small groups to discuss these questions. (a) what secrets do these people want to know? how do they plan to find them? (1) hamlet (2) claudius (3) polonius (b) will their plans succeed? why/why not? penguin readers factsheets teacher’s notes © pearson education limited 2006 published and distributed by pearson longman factsheet written by chris rice factsheet series developed by louise james penguin readers factsheets student’s activities hamlet by william shakespeare l e ve l 3 – p re -in te rm e d ia te h a m le t p …

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summary the king of denmark, is dead and has been succeeded not by his son, hamlet, but by his brother, claudius. soon after the funeral, claudius marries his brother’s widow, gertrude. hamlet, still upset by his father’s death, sees the ghost of his father, who tells him that he was murdered by claudius. the ghost asks his son to avenge his death. hamlet pretends to go mad. polonius, the lord chamberlain, forbids his daughter, ophelia, to see hamlet. spied on by polonius and claudius, ophelia returns hamlet’s love letters and is violently rejected by him. a group of travelling actors arrive at the court. hamlet asks them to perform a play in which a king is murdered by his nephew. …

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