Shakespeare tragedies

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What are the three types of plays Shakespeare wrote?

lion king

Hamlet

Prince of Denmark,

King of procrastination

Which themes can you find in Hamlet?

What are the similarities between Hamlet and the Lion King?

Homework check

Hamlet questions

Why is it surprising that Hamlet talks of 'the pangs of dispriz'd love'?

Why is it surprising that Hamlet talks of 'the pangs of dispriz'd love'?

Rejection in love is not a problem that Hamlet has had: Ophelia seems to love him, although (as Hamlet will have been well aware) she could not show her interest in him too openly.

Why is the phrase 'to die; to sleep' repeated?

Why is the phrase 'to die; to sleep' repeated?

It gives the impression of Hamlet turning things over again and again in his mind. He is exploring all the implications of death.

What is the conclusion of the last two lines?

What is the conclusion of the last two lines?

Fear of what may come after death deters people from fleeing the difficulties that they have in life; the message is “better the devil you know.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked love

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Watch Romeo and Juliet.

How could the deaths in this play have been prevented?

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"

Goal: I know and understand Macbeth

"The Scottish Play"

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/

shakespeare.mit.edu

Watch the first two scenes of these two productions

• What are some of the differences in artistic choices?

• What effect do these differences have? 
  

Read act 1 scene 3+4

• What are the witches' predictions?

• what effect do they have on Macbeth and Banquo?