• ​What decisions does a director or actor make in performing drama?

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• How can older texts/plays be reinterpreted for modern audiences?

• In what ways do people put on performances? How does this change our understanding of reality?

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• ​How does Shakespeare's use of language create layers of meaning within Hamlet?

Essential Questions

• Analyze the opportunities for interpretation for directors and actors to have on written drama

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• ​Create your own Hamlet, ​reimagining the play for more modern audiences

• Trace Hamlet’s evolving psychological and emotional state and how his condition is reflected in his soliloquies.

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• ​Evaluate Shakespeare's use of figurative language (like metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, and more)

Learning Objectives