Hamlet Dramatic Techniques
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- Hamlet Dramatic Techniques
- Staging
- Props
- Entrances
- E.g. Almeida performance- Hamlet facing Claudius in prayer scene, invalidates his reason for not killing
- The presentation of the Ghost - in original Globe use of a trap door
- Class based seating of Globe - yard v galleries, would vary experience of theatre
- Surveillance
- Contemporary CCTV use - involved audience in feeling of being watched
- Structure- 5 acts like most Shakespeare plays
- Act 1- establishes conflict
- Act 2- rising action
- Act 3- climax
- Act 4- falling action
- Act 5- resolution
- Acting
- Soliloquies
- Who are they addressing- breaking of 4th wall talking to audience?
- Metatheatre
- Mouse Trap structurally important as central scene
- Asides to foreshadow- 'and yet it is almost against my conscious (Laertes doubts about killing Hamlet)
- Tension through audience knowing more- e.g. sword is poisoned
- Whether Hamlet's 'antic disposition' is put on or real
- Soliloquies
- Tragedy
- Convention that bloody moments happy off stage- we are just told of them
- Ophelia's death, Polonius' stabbing, R + G's death
- But end scene we see everyone die- but lack of blood
- Aristotle's tragedy
- Fatal flaw- Hamlet's philosophising and morals
- Peipeteia (fall) - Claudius marries Gertrude
- Catalyst- Ghost's request
- Epiphany- Realising Claudius killed Old Hamlet in Mouse Trap OR to be or not to be
- Anagnorisis (discovery) - attempting to kill Claudius
- Or: 'readiness is all' - anagnorisis in willingness to die
- Error of judgement
- Killing Polonius- catalyst for Laertes
- Not killing Claudius Act 3 - indecision
- Climax- duel/ Claudius dying
- Resolution/ denouement- Fortinbras king, lack of catharsis, Hamlet should be King
- Almeida performance- only saw Fortinbras on screen, lack of trust
- Convention that bloody moments happy off stage- we are just told of them
- Staging
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