Liz’s Blog

Dear New Students in Mrs. Duke’s Class,
 
I know that when you first found out Mrs. Duke was going to be your English teacher the first thing you probably did was freak out, because that is what most people do.  There have been so many rumors about how hard the class is and about the huge [...]

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Dear Simon Russell Beale,
I really enjoyed your reading of Hamlet. My high school English class just got finished “reading” it, but we really listened to you read it for the most part. I liked it better that way; because I would much rather listen to you read it then read it myself. [...]

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Dear Mr. Kenneth Branagh,
 
I really enjoyed your performance of Hamlet!  Our English class was reading it this year and we only watched the last act to see how the performance compared and went along with our reading of it.  Most of the characters were exactly how I envisioned them and the set was perfect!  I [...]

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In this soliloquy, Hamlet is talking about whether or not he is going to kill himself.  He is in so much pain and has so much grief that he doesn’t know what to do. He says that because no one knows what to expect after death, they would rather live with the bad things that [...]

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First things first.  I realized that I have been spelling Rosencrantz’s name wrong the whole time.  Instead of calling him Ros I have been calling him Roz.  Sorry everyone!
Okay so before I even started reading this part I knew exactly what was going to happen.  There had been so much foreshadowing and it was completely [...]

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I thought this section made Hamlet even more easier to understand. As character development continued in Hamlet with Ros and Guil we get a better understanding on what these characters are about. Whenever Hamlet enters dragging Polonius’ body it really ties the two plays together. That is such a great example of intertextuality.This makes me [...]

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