Plot and Drama
Plot and Drama II
Who Said What?
Why?
Potpourri
100
We were used to provide comic relief.
Who are the gravediggers?
100
When did the first gravedigger become employed?
What is when kind Hamlet defeated Fortinbras?
100
(sings) A pickax and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet, Oh, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet. (throws up another skull)
What is Gravedigger?
100
Why are the grave diggers singing?
What is to offer comic relief?
100
Where does the ghost appear during the play? (two places)
What is the castle ramparts and Gertrude's bed chamber.
200
How did Ophelia die?
What is she drowned?
200
When Hamlet asks the grave digger who the grave is for his response is?
What is sarcastic / joking?
200
Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings at grave- making.
What is Hamlet?
200
Why is the comedy of this scene so important to the rest of the play?
What is to set it up for the rest of the play?
200
What character cannot see the ghost?
What is Gertrude?
300
Who was Yorick?
Who was a jester for Hamlet?
300
What does Hamlet finally come to terms with after seeing Yorick's grave?
What is he finally accepts death and the death of his father?
300
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.
What is the Gravedigger?
300
Why is Hamlet puzzled that the grave digger is singing?
What is because he is still upset about the nature of his father's death?
300
What year was Hamlet most likely written?
What is 1601?
400
What were the gravediggers arguing about?
What is the nature of Ophelias death?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! Based on Yorick's skull approximately how old is Hamlet?
What is mid to late 20s? The gravedigger says Yorick's skull is about 23 years old and Hamlet says that he was a friend of Yorick so Hamlet is approximately in his mid to late 20s.
400
I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial.
What is Other Gravedigger?
400
Why is Ophelia getting a Christian burial?
What is because of her standing in society?
400
What university did Horatio and Hamlet study at?
What is Wittenberg?
500
The grave-digger turns up a skull which hamlet takes. Who's skull is it?
Who is Yorick?
500
The grave diggers serve two purposes, what are they?
What is to show what the common people of Denmark are thinking concerning Ophelia’s death and the goings-on at the castle. And to offer comic relief.
500
Give me leave. Here lies the water. Good. Here stands the man. Good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes. Mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
What is Gravedigger?
500
Why do the gravediggers talk about Adam’s profession?
What is comic relief? (They joke about Adam and their own jobs.)
500
What character speaks the first line of the play?
Who is Bernardo?
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