Read the Hamlet summaries (main ideas)
SparkNotes summarySuper short synopsis
Look at the following PowerPoints (main ideas of each slide).
Hamlet tales 1
Hamlet tales 2
Hamlet tales 3
Hamlet madness
Ophelia madness
Think about your play (Animated tales)
Here is about half of your test. The test will only use "key words", so make sure you understand the ideas completely:
1 After Laertes talks to Ophelia about Hamlet, he goes to ...
2 Hamlet almost kills Claudius, but decides against it because Claudius ...
3 How do Rosencranz and Guilenstern die?
4 One of the guards, Marcellus, says "Something is rotten in the state of ________"
5 How does Hamlet talk about the "short time" between his father's death and his mother's marriage?
6 When Polonius says "Springes to catch woodcocks", what does he mean?
7 How does the ghost say he was killed?
8 Why does Hamlet think the ghost tells him to kill Claudius?
9 Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to what place?
10 Before Hamlet stabs Polonius he says that hears a __
11 What are rosemary and violets for?
12 Whose skull does the gravedigger give to Hamlet?
13 How much does Hamlet say that he loved Ophelia?
14 Near the end, what does Hamlet tell Horatio to do?
15 Why does Ophelia first think that Hamlet is crazy?
16 Ophelia says at her father's head and heels are ____