Today, we reviewed the first part of Act III and then continued. We read up to Act III, Scene 3, (page 95 for those in period 3 and page 93 for those in period 2). If you were not here, answer the following:
1. What is the purpose of inserting the conversation between the player king and player king (lines 148 - 215)?
2. What does Gertrude say about the preamble? How does her reaction mirror her own experiences? Explain.
3. How has the name of the play been changed? Why has it been changed?
4. How have the actions in the play been changed from the death scene as described earlier by the ghost?
5. Why does Hamlet make these changes?
6. What do these changes indicate about Hamlet's feelings about his mother's involvement?
7. Hamlet uses the analogy of the recorder... what is the purpose of this analogy? What is he trying to tell Guildenstern by using it?
8. Why does Hamlet spare Claudius' life?
9. Why does Hamlet kill Polonius?
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