Hamlet: Context

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1. What were the key elements of a Jacobean Tragedy?

  • Obedience, morality and good behaviour
  • Maintaining an image replicating court
  • Wicked behaviour, corrupt society and moral hypocrisy
  • Madness, violence and sexual deviancy
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2. What percentage of the lines does Gertrude speak?

  • 3.8%
  • 3.85%
  • 3.7%
  • 3.9%

3. What is a malcontent?

  • The troubled individual who befriends the villain
  • The troubled individual who comments critically on society
  • The troubled individual who looks to defy his parents
  • The outcast

4. How were women typically viewed in the Elizabethan Era?

  • The cause of corruption in society
  • Angels
  • The model of humanity
  • As demonic

5. What was Seneca, the classical dramatist, famous for?

  • The play within a play
  • Women as the protagonists
  • The bloody catharsis
  • Characters of ambiguous morality

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