Background Information
Differences Between Hamlet and The Lion King
Character Comparisons to The Lion King
Allusions
Famous Quotations
100
Shakespeake's proposed birthdate.
What is April 23, 1564
100
Hamlet is played by humans while The Lion King is played by ____.
What is lions
100
The character that represents Hamlet.
Who is Simba
100
The quote from the book where Hamlet alludes to Hercules.
What is "My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules."
100
The person who said "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Who is Marcellus
200
Three skills need to be an actor.
What are a good memory, good hand-to-hand combat, and the ability to be agile and light-footed
200
While Hamlet is an adult in the play, Simba is _________.
What is young
200
The characters in The Lion King that represent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Who are Timon and Pumba
200
The character who made an allusion to Julius Caesar in Act 1 Scene 1.
Who is Horatio
200
The meaning of the quote, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
What is that the appearance of the ghost signifies a future trouble for Denmark
300
The significance of the location of the Globe Theater.
What is the theater didn't have to pay London's strict acting taxes because they were across from the Thames River and outside of city limits so it made more money
300
In Hamlet, Gertrude marries Claudius but in The Lion King Sarabi never actually marries __________.
Who is Scar, Simba's uncle
300
The character from The Lion King that represents Ophelia, Hamlet's love interest.
Who is Nala
300
The biblical character that Hamlet alludes to concerning Polonius and his daughter.
Who is Jephtah
300
The meaning of the quote, "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
What is the fact that King Claudius is both Hamlet's uncle and his father but that Hamlet feels no relationship to him
400
Compare the seats in the Globe Theater to modern examples.
What are penny seats-standing room middle price- normal seats high price- box seats elite price- front row seat/courtside
400
Though Simba is sad when his father dies he spends the next few years in happiness while Hamlet lives in _______ his whole life.
What is depression
400
The character in Hamlet that is slightly portrayed through Zazu.
Who is Polonius
400
The person that Hamlet alluded to when at the cemetery.
Who is Alexander the Great
400
The meaning of the famous quote, "To be or not to be, that is the question."
What is the fact that Hamlet doesn't know if it is better to continue his suffering or to end it all, but since he doesn't know what would happen after death he decides suicide isn't the answer
500
Four characteristics of the Globe Theater.
What are 3 levels and many sided, an open yard, a flag to signal a play being shown, and a thatched roof made of mug and tree limbs
500
In The Lion King only the father and the uncle die but in Hamlet ____________ all die.
Who are the uncle, the father, the mother, the lead role, the love interest, the love interest's father and brother, and other small characters
500
The character in the Lion King that represents Horatio.
Who is Rafiki
500
The biblical figures that Claudius alludes to when he says, "It hath the primal eldest curse upon't a brother's murder.
Who is Cain and Abel
500
The meaning of Ophelia's quote, "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven....."
What is Ophelia tells Laertes not to tell her to be a saint while he is off doing who knows what