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This activity immerses students in the King’s soliloquy and uses performance to foreground some functions of Shakespeare’s imagery. We focus on the moment when the King says: Oh wretched state! Oh bosom black as death! O limed soul that struggling to be free Art more engaged! (3.3.67-69) we read the note by Edwards, which states […]

The first decision occurs during the soliloquy, where Hamlet vows to avenge murder when he says “Now to my word: It is ‘Adieu, adieu, remember me.’ 1 have sworn’t”. This introduces the crucial issue of what it means to make a vow or take an oath and the consequences for Hamlet of making this vow […]

Shakespeare’s plays are packed with allusions, many of them allusions to classical literature since the classical Latin authors were what young boys studied in grammar school as part of mastering speaking and writing in Latin and in English. Hamlet’s first soliloquy provides an excellent place to engage students in answering the questions, “What is this […]

After discussing the basic features of daylight performance on the large platform stage of the Globe, we begin to explore the opening exchanges, with one student performing Francisco, imagined as armed with a pike, and another performing Barnardo, imagined as wearing a sword. You can use a modern edited text and simply explain the alternate […]

What I appreciate the most in reading the students’ journals is the variety of observations from the same perspective. For instance, having shown Polanski’s Macbeth to seniors since 1993, this was the first year, thanks to a student seated in “the gallery,” that I appreciated how Polanski staged Macbeth’s mad scene on the same platform […]