a) All I know about Hamlet: Hamlet sees his father's ghost and knows that his uncle killed his father. His uncle is in a relationship with his mother because he wants the throne. Hamlet loves this girl named Ophelia, but I think he kills her father and so she kills herself by drowning. Then, I believe that Hamlet's mother is killed, and he dies from a poisoned sword in a duel at the end of the play.
b) I know Shakespeare wrote the plays Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. He lived in Stratford-Upon-Avon in the 16th century in England.
c) Students involuntarily frown when they hear "Shakespeare" because his writing is not contemporary, and therefore, there are many words and phrases, sometimes even words that he has made up, that take time to decipher the actual meaning of a scene. Also, reading a play is a lot less interactive and intriguing as watching a play performed. I feel like the meaning of the lines of Shakespeare's plays can be more easily inferred in the context of the actions and facial features of actors in the play.
d) We can make studying this play an amazing experience if we go to see the PCPA production of it in the spring.
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