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Hamlet
Procedure:
Every day when you come to class, grab a script and start reading the scene we are acting that day.
If you have a role, get your costume on and then make sure of the pronunciation of each word you say in the script.
Remember to think about what is going on so that we can all discuss it afterward!
Assignments:
Memory Work (To Be and Speak the Speech)
Advice
Story Snake
Poem
Letter (to be sealed!)
Speeches
To Be, Or Not To Be
To be or not to be:
that is the question:
whether ‘tis nobler in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing
end them?
To Die: to sleep; no more;
and by a sleep
to say we end the heart-ache
and the thousand natural shocks
that flesh is heir to,
‘tis a consummation
devoutly to be wish’d.
To die, to sleep;
to sleep; perchance to dream;
Ay, there’s the rub;
for in the sleep of death
what dreams may come
when we have shuffled off
this mortal coil,
must give us pause:
Speak the Speech
Speak the speech, I pray you,
as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue:
But if you mouth it,
as many of your players do,
I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Nor do not saw the air too much
with your hand, Thus,
but use all gently;
for in the very torrent, tempest,
and as I may say,
the whirlwind of your passion,
you must acquire and beget a temperance
that may give it smoothness.
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a
robustious periwig-pated fellow
tear a passion to tatters, to very rags,
to split the ears of the groundlings,
who for the most part
are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumb-shows and noise:
I would have such a fellow whipped
for o’er-doing Termagant;
it out-herods Herod:
pray you, avoid it.