I hope you enjoyed your long weekend, whether it included being with family on the holiday, visiting colleges, catching up on sleep, or just doing whatever.
For the next two days we'll take a close look at the action in the play, focusing on the developments in Act IV. We'll focus on the link between thought and action, an issue Hamlet raises several times, as well as what those actions communicate to others, especially you, the audience.
We'll get into groups to examine these moments from recent scenes we've read:
- What do they say / do? What does it tell us about the character?
- Gertrude speaking to Claudius at the start of IV.1
- Claudius’s response to Gertrude’s news
- Claudius’s plan for Hamlet (in IV.1)
- Hamlet’s action at the start of III.4
- Hamlet’s thoughts and actions in IV.2
- Hamlet speaking with Claudius in IV.3
- Hamlet’s soliloquy in IV.4
