William Shakespare

A cura di J. Pignet
 Hamlet is one of the most famous and frequently represented plays written by Shakespeare. Its psychological, relational and existential implications make this tragedy remain relevant and intriguing.
 Hamlet’s father’s ghost appears to him to ask to avenge his death caused by his brother Claudius, who has usurped the throne and married his sister-in-law after the murder.
 Hamlet’s witty plan to organize the revenge goes along with his presumed madness. The sequence of woeful events and the finale loaded with violent deaths are the typical ingredients of the “revenge tragedies” of the time.
 The book, written in narrative form, is interspaced with authentic lines, among the most famous ones. It is also enriched with inserts on theatre and cinema performances, the sources, the various themes of the tragedy and the study of its main characters. 
 
 Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Audioscripts - Summing-up Activities
 
 Una delle più celebri e rappresentate tragedie di Shakespeare, i cui risvolti psicologici, relazionali ed esistenziali la rendono ancora attuale ed intrigante. La successione di funesti eventi e il finale carico di morti violente sono i tipici ingredienti della tragedia dell’epoca. Il reader è esposto in forma narrativa con intermezzi di versi autentici tra i più famosi. È corredato da approfondimenti, tra i quali, le fonti, le problematiche e lo studio dei personaggi, le rappresentazioni teatrali e cinematografiche della tragedia.

William Shakespeare

Chapter 1 – An Unweeded Garden

Extension: Composition and Texts

Chapter 2 – The Cause of the Defect

Extension: Hamlet and the Stage

Chapter 3 – Blasted with Ecstasy

Extension: What is the Problem?

Chapter 4 – The Tormentor

Extension: The Springs of Corruption

Chapter 5 – A Lady Called Death

Extension: The Rose of May

Chapter 6 – The Readiness is All

Extension: Adapting Hamlet to Film

Summing-up activities

Glossary

6  The Readiness is All Chapter BEFORE READING 1 Tick the suggestion you think appropriate. a. Whose tomb are the grave-diggers digging? c  a man s c  a woman s c  a baby s b. Who is to be buried soon? c  Ophelia c  the Queen 2 c  a countess What do you expect will happen? a. Hamlet will c  refuse the duel, fearing treason. c  accept the duel. c  discard the King s plan by accusing him. b. Laertes will c  survive the duel. c  be killed by Claudius. c  be killed by Hamlet in the duel. c. Claudius will c  eliminate both Hamlet and Laertes. c  be killed by Laertes. c  be killed by Hamlet. 3 Which of the following words are connected to fencing and which to funeral? duel   dagger   tomb   match   gravedigger   swordsman   blade   churchyard   priest   exchange   prayer FENCING FUNERAL 86 

Hamlet The Readiness is All Chapter 6   (Act 5, Scenes 1, 2) H m Hamlet knelt at the edge1 of the grave and asked the digger what u man he was digging it for.  For no man, sir,  replied the digger without stopping to work.  What woman, then?  Hamlet went on.  No woman, either. For one that was a woman, Sir, but now is dead, peace to her soul,  answered the man. The man s way of answering made Hamlet curious, so he inquired:  How long have you been a gravedigger?  Digger: Of all the days i  the year, I came to  t that day that our last King Hamlet defeated Fortinbras. Ham.: How long is that since? Digger: Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that; it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England. Ham.: Ay, marry! Why was he sent to England? Digger: Why, because a  2 was mad; a  shall recover his wits there; or, if a  do not,  tis no great matter there. Ham.: Why? Digger: Twill 3 not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he. Ham.: How came he mad? Digger: Very strangely, they say. Ham.: How strangely? Digger: Faith 4, with losing his wits. Ham.: Upon what ground 5? Digger: Why, here in Denmark; I have been sexton 6 here, man and boy, thirty years. Ham.: How long will a man lie in the earth ere he rot 7? 1. 2. 3. 4. edge: margin. a : he (uneducated speech).  twill: it will. faith: to tell the truth. 5. ground: land/reason (double meaning leading to equivocation). 6. sexton: church guardian. 7. rot: decay naturally. 87 

Narrativa inglese, livello B2 intermedio, tragedia di Shakespeare corredata da approfondimenti specifici come la caratterizzazione dei personaggi.

Hamlet - Collana RAINBOWS

Level B2 • Intermediate - Collana RAINBOWS

Hamlet

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