1. Summer reading critical lens today in the 3rd floor lab. Part 2 is tomorrow.2. You are getting back your vocabulary from Friday. Most folks did well with this. See me early, if you had trouble. There'll be 14 more coming along. Other clues for the vocabulary, besides the contextual meaning- and actually looking back at the list- is if the article "an" is used, that means the word needed must begin with a vowel. Also, I tell you what part of speech the word is. That means when you need a noun, you can't use a verb!
3. Reminder: vocabulary test on first vocabulary list for Hamlet this THURSDAY (not Friday). This is a matching quiz. Memorize the meaning of these words.
4. You are receiving your copy of Hamlet today. By Wednesday please have read carefully through Act I.i. and answer the questions I am handing out in class. Read slowly and aloud, at least in your head. Below is a copy. I will collect these at the beginning of class.
Hamlet Act I.i. responses for each of the following, use specific text lines. (quote!)
Act I.i.
1. Despite having told Horatio that he has twice seen the ghost, what is Horatio’s belief in terms of this phantasmagoria?
2. How specifically is the ghost attired?
3. Sixteenth and seventeenth century England fervently believed in spirits; they were a superstitious lot, as well. As well, remember that the theatre patronage depended ultimately upon the patronage of the monarch, so the plays often make allusions to important figures as a means of referencing their own leader. To whom does Horatio allude? Write three lines that speak to what occurred previously and could possibly portend some other malady.
4. Again with superstitions to which the audience will relate: The ghost leaves when the “morn in russet mantle (example of imagery!) [is] clad…[and] faded on the crowing of the cock.” This is because ghosts cannot abide the light. According to Marcellus, at what other time of year will we find no ghosts treading about?
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