Hamlet - Day 9

During the first part of class today you worked with your group to create a visual portrayal of a topic from Act II. These included:

• Deception
• Trust / Distrust
• Doubt / Confidence
• Madness
• Baiting others / Fishing for information
• Privacy

For the second part we examined four relationships and how they change (or don't) over the course of the first three acts of the play:

• Hamlet and Gertrude - 1.2 / 3.4
• Hamlet and Claudius - 1.2 / 3.2 & 3.3
• Hamlet and Horatio - 1.2 / 3.2
• Hamlet and Ophelia - 1.3 / 2.1 / 2.2 / 3.1

Instead of discussing them or writing about them, you created a series of tableaux - silent freeze-frames to convey the feelings, attitudes, and motivations of the characters in these scenes. While two of you created these poses, another person in your group read the line(s).

Here's a link to a slideshow with photos of some of our tableaux: Hamlet Relationship Tableaux

Hopefully you took good notes during class - your work with both the themes and the relationships was insightful - keep track of these details!