TDR 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Polonius
6 Mar 2018
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Note: the standard version of all shakespeare texts, including hamlet , is the arden version. Forwards- make you lean forward; tantalize the audience and make you ask what"s next? . Essential to keeping an audience engaged in any good play. Polonius says your son is mad - an event. His walking around the idea and wit play instead of just getting to the point and saying it is a forward. The queen"s line more matter with less art means what are you saying about my son? is a forward that leads to polonius" confession. Exposition and forward: polonius explains his plan for hamlet to claudius and the queen (gertrude) The sexy letter that polonius gets from ophelia could be a forward, since the threat of sex always wakes people up and makes them pay attention. Polonius line: what do you think of me? is him asking have ophelia and.
