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How does Hamlet's state of mind change over the course of Shakespeare's most famous revenge tragedy? After a close reading of Hamlet's soliloquies in Act III, scene 1 and Act IV, scene iv, class members engage in a Paideia/Socratic seminar and then craft an essay in which they use evidence from the text to support their analysis.
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- To save copying costs, share the word document of the two soliloquies on Google Classroom
- Review with class members the Elizabethan concepts of the Great Chain of Being and their belief ghosts could be either telling the truth to aid a character or lying to destroy a character
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- The resource contains detailed reading strategies for a close reading of the two soliloquies
- Includes an optional assessment if class members have not read the entire play
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