ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kronborg, Hamlet Q1, Polonius
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What it means for the play, how it works textually, and theatrically. Doubling the ghost as fortinbras/ claudius/ gravedigger. Three sets of sons who have lost their fathers laertes loses his father. All potential revengers of their father"s death. The soliloquies do the work of individualizing him from the other sons in the play. He gets a soliloquy every act except the final one, in which horatio is an onstage confidant. Hamlet and sign language in toronto in the spring. Way more popular now than in shakespeare"s moment. Kronborg castle in denmark, model for elsanor. It is the longest play. who would be one of england"s queens grew up. A musician based at the court has gone there. English players go to residence when he was writing this. Hamlet is not a real person, and yet the conjunction of that location makes us want to fill him out as person rather than dramatic character.
