12-How might this interview have changed the entire play? 13-What line in Ophelia's description of the interview describes Sir Henry Irving's impersonation of Shylock?

14-What development in Polonius' character since the opening of the play?

15-Comment on Polonius' view of Hamlet's appearance in Ophelia's closet.

16-To what do you attribute Hamlet's "piteous look," "Pale as shirt," his knees knocking each other, etc., as he comes to Ophelia?

17-What does Victor Hugo say of Hamlet as a tragedy? 18-What is meant by "This must be known, which being kept

close might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love?" 19-How does Shakespeare show us that he loved Hamlet beyond all his other creations?

20-What is said to have been one of Shakespeare's modes of creating character?

21-To what knowledge of Shakespeare's may the character of Hamlet be traced?

22-How may we assume that this character must have some connection with the common fundamental laws of human nature?

23-How does Mrs. Jameson characterize Ophelia?

24-What is the most pathetic situation in Act II, Scene 1?

Act II, Scene 2.

1-What new elements enter into the play at the beginning of Scene 2?

2-How much time does the play of Hamlet cover, as represented on the stage?

3-How much time is consumed in the first two acts?

4-Why does the Queen think Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can draw Hamlet out of his melancholy? (b) Why did the King have faith in them?

5-When does the Queen resort to small talk? Why? 6-Why the transposition of names by the Queen after the King has thanked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

7-What did the Queen believe to be the cause of Hamlet's distemper?

8-Hamlet's condition affects the King, Queen, and Polonius

each in a different way. Is this analogous to the ordinary way in which different people interpret the same thing? 9-Comment on Polonius' art and brevity when telling the King and Queen the cause of Hamlet's defect.

10-Do you consider Hamlet "ill at these numbers?"

11-How does Polonius speak for himself in Scene 2?

12-(a) What is the purport of the odd letter from Hamlet to Ophelia? (b) Do you think Hamlet wrote it to test Ophelia's penetration of his nature?

13-Why does Ophelia give his letters up so docilely and betray his secrets so unshrinkingly?

14-Upon what principle does Hamlet constantly act?

15-When Hamlet is accosted by Polonius in what does Hamlet's irony consist?

16-In what satire does Hamlet indulge?

17-How has Shakespeare shown his knowledge of insanity? 18-What is the office of Voltimand and Cornelius in this scene? 19-To what do you attribute the numerous plays upon words in which Hamlet indulges?

20-Some have thought that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern should have been compressed into one. Do you think these soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling flattery, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, could be expressed by a single man?

21-What traits are revealed in the interview between these two men and Hamlet?

22-What does this interview reveal of the quality of Hamlet's intellect?

23-What dramatic forecast in this interview?

24-What innovation caused the inhibition of the actors? 25-Why the change from poetry to prose in Act II, Scene 2? 26-What subtlety does Hamlet show in Act II, Scene 2? 27-When does he reach the climax of his subtlety?

28-What is the dramatic function of Hamlet's soliloquy in Act II, Scene 2?

29-Would the soliloquies in the tragedy of Hamlet make a complete story in themselves?

30-Does Hamlet show a cunning in apprehending the mission

of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

31-What is the meaning of "I am but mad north-northwest. etc.?"

32-Is there any importance attached to Polonius' division of the drama?

33-From what song did Hamlet quote when he said, "O Jeptha, Judge of Israel, what a treasure hads't thou?"

34-Why did Hamlet call the player "my young lady and mis tress?"

35-What is the meaning of "'twas caviare to the general?" 36-Where in this scene do you find the best example of hos pitality?

37-Do you find anything in Scene 2 upon which to base the theory of Hamlet's madness?

38-Do you find anything in Scene 2 that sustains the theory that Hamlet's madness was feigned?

39-What action does Scene 2 foreshadow?

40-(a) What does Taine say of the history of Hamlet?

(b)

What does he say regarding Hamlet's madness? 41-What old proverbs are suggested to you in Act II, Scene 2?

Act III, Scene 1.

1-The Queen, King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius and Ophelia are all used to ascertain whether Hamlet is mad, how mad and the cause; they are baffled, does this prove anything to you?

2-Describe Polonius.

3-What are Hamlet's arguments for and against suicide voiced in his soliloquy "To be or not to be," etc.?

4-What is the difference between his views on suicide in this

soliloquy and, "oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt," or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon gainst self slaughter?

5-What does the soliloquy "To be or not to be" reveal of Hamlet's nature?

6-Was Hamlet unnecessarily harsh to Ophelia?

7-How did the harshness effect you?

8-Did Ophelia deceive Hamlet?

9-Where in this scene does Hamlet show himself to be a wit? 10-What inference does the King draw from Hamlet's soliloquy and his words to Ophelia?

11-What pathetic revelation of herself does Ophelia give in her soliloquy uttered after Hamlet's departure?

12-What is one of the dramatic functions of this soliloquy? 13-How has Shakespeare prepared us for the climax of the tragedy?

14-What double motive or impulse is at work in Act III, Scene 1 15-Act III strikes a new note in the play, what is it? 16-What trait is developing in Ophelia?

17-Is Ophelia a good actress?

18-What in Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be," is active? What passive?

19-Why does Hamlet repeat "to sleep?"

20-Why does Hamlet stop in his soliloquy and address Ophelia? 21-Do you think Ophelia was guileless and innocent, or the reverse?

22-What arouses Hamlet's indignation toward Ophelia? 23-What is one of the deepest longings of Hamlet's nature? 24-Was Hamlet's outburst against Ophelia due to cruelty or pain?

25-Do you think Ophelia's mind begins to fail in Act III, Scene 1? Give reason for your opinion.

26-What dramatic forecasts in Act III, Scene 1?

27-What further development in Polonius' nature?

28-To what point in the drama has Act III, Scene 1, brought us?

Act III, Scene 2.

1-After the proof of Ophelia's incapacity to understand Hamlet to whom does he turn? With what effect?

2-What does Horatio recognize to be his highest duty?

3 Which is the rarer nature of the two, Hamlet or Horatio? 4-Which side of Hamlet's nature is in the ascendency at the opening of Scene 2, the mental, moral, or physical?

5-What kind of nature had Horatio?

6-Why does Hamlet confide in Horatio?

7-What, according to Hamlet, is the mission of the drama?

8-What is the meaning of "And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them?"

9-To what do you attribute Hamlet's knowledge of the drama and of acting?

10-What does Hamlet's description of Horatio's character reveal to you?

11-Was Hamlet "a pipe for fortune's finger?"

12-What psychological study in Act III, Scene 2?

13-What have we of the soul's measure of time in Scene 2? 14-What is the meaning of "They are coming to the play, I must be idle?"

15-Why does Hamlet decline a seat near his mother?

16-What, in this scene of the players, is like electric sparks which scintillate and snap while the current is streaming to its receptacle?

17-How does Ophelia regard all this?

18-Contrast Hamlet's conduct and words before and after the entrance of the Queen, King, Polonius and Ophelia.

19-Is the dramatic function of this play within the play to bring the action of the drama to a climax?

20-What is the meaning of dramatic climax?

21-Which lines in the play within the play were inserted by Hamlet?

22-What is the condition of the different persons during the play within the play?

23-What follows the ascertaining of Claudius' guilt? 24-Why does Hamlet call for music?

25-How does Hamlet treat Rosencrantz and Guilderstern when

they haunt his footsteps after the play?

26-How do they act concerning the parable of the recorders? 27-What attitude is Hamlet assuming toward his foes?

28-What is meant by "Chameleon's dish?"

29-Who was Hecate?

30-Define "Half a share.”

31-Define "By these pickers and stealers."

32-What does Hamlet's soliloquy at the end of Act III, Scene

2, reveal to you?

33-What is the finest fancy in Act III, Scene 2?

34-Is Scene 2, Act III, the acme of the climax of the drama? 35-How many kinus of love do you find in Scenes 1 and 2 of Act III?