We focused just on Act I today — the opening scene on the battlement, the initial court scene that introduces Claudius and Gertrude, the domestic scene where Ophelia gets mansplaining first from her brother then from her father, and Hamlet’s encounter with the ghost.
After the slow opening acts in A Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the students were surprised at how much was happening.
A student also commented on how much easier it is to follow the political setting of the plot than the complex history you have to understand in order to get into Richard III.
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Is that a challenge?
He's warning Hamlet not to follow the ghost as it beckons him away from the guards.
I can't remember what "it" is in this passage and it's bugging me. Is he talking about Ghost Dad, or Hamlet's crazy plan in general?
The key word here being "draw."
As Horatio warns Hamlet:
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other, horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness?
No Hamlet comic is useless!
If you need any useless Hamlet comics, you know where to find me.