Hamlet Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

These are my A Level English literature Hamlet notes analysing key scenes, context, critics, quotes, performances and the interelation of the play, including chronology, key themes and character arcs. These helped me achieve full marks in my essays and an A* at the end of my English A Level.

A complete analysis and summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet including annotations for every scene, soliloquy, character and theme. Each theme contains important quotations linked to the text as well as strategies to use these quotes in literary essays.

A bank of A level English Literature essay questions on "Hamlet"

Hamlet Act III Study Guide 2024. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report about Hamlet to the king and queen? - ANSWER Hamlet is distracted and won't say why, and he is pleased about the arrival of the actors. Why does Polonius tell Ophelia to pretend to be reading a book of devotions? - ANSWER So Hamlet won't suspect she is waiting for him, so that her father can observe them. What bitter advice does Hamlet give Ophelia? Why? - ANSWER Go to a nunnery; he is bitter about love having ...

Hamlet Act 3 Study Guide 2024. "Get thee to a nunnery" - ANSWER Hamlet 1) protect your virtue 2) or go to a brothel (Elizabethian) "It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." - ANSWER Claudius thinks he is talking about Hamlet but is talking about himself! Dramatic Irony. His actions are out of control. "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks." - ANSWER Queen thinks the person in the play is overreacting because she is feeling the guilt of the same situation....

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Hamlet Act III Quotes Exam 2024. Claudius to Hamlet: great minds are dangerous when they go mad - ANSWER "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." Hamlet to Horatio: Hamlet cares about Horatio so much because he is not the kind of person that is controlled by emotions - ANSWER "Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart, as I do thee." Claudius: he wants the play to stop, he is secretly feeling guilty for murder...

Hamlet Act 4 Advanced Test 2024.How does the queen protect Hamlet? - ANSWER She doesn't entirely protect him. She doesn't tell Claudius that he's confessed he's not crazy to her, but she does tell him that Hamlet killed Polonius. What does Hamlet mean when he calls Rosencrantz a "sponge"? - ANSWER He soaks up the king's approval and rewards. When the king needs what R knows, he just squeezes R out like a sponge and he'll be dry again. What two places does Hamlet tell Claudius that ...

Hamlet || Act 2 Review Guide 2024.What does Polonius ask of Reynaldo? - ANSWER To go to France & find out more information about Laertes. What did Hamlet do to Ophelia to frighten her? - ANSWER He grabbed her wrist, stared at her, and then nodded at her as if to say she is just like his mother. He then leaves without looking away from her After the ambassadors have left, what piece of writing does Polonius share with Claudius and Gertrude? - ANSWER A love letter What message do the amba...

This is a model essay for the exam question: "explore Shakespeare's use of language and it's dramatic effects in act 3 scene 4 in Hamlet". It comes with a plan and full essay.