For this on your own activity, you will respond to different texts, videos, iterations of key scenes in Hamlet.
As you move through the selections below, take notes on anything you find interesting, surprising, or would like to explore further, either with the group, or in future writing assignments. In your notes that you post here, keep track of specific passages or elements that you’re responding to, so that you can easily refer to it in our class discussions.
1) Watch the video,“What is Manga?”
In addition to your general notes, respond to the following two questions:
- Identify an onomatopoeia in Acts I-III, as described in the video. List the page number of the onomatopoeia that you’re referring to. Reflect on how this addition impacts the original text. Does it help to set the scene? What does this sound tell us about the scene, characters, or setting that we wouldn’t know without it?
- Identify an image or set of images in a scene in Acts I-III. List the page number(s) of the image(s) that you’re referring to. Reflect on how this image impacts the original text? How does it serve as the setting/staging of the play? What does it tell you about the relationship between the characters? What does this image(s) reveal about the scene, characters, or setting that the text alone doesn’t?
2) Read and skim some of the supplemental materials and videos in Brittanica’s synopsis of Hamlet.
3) Watch Hamlet’s soliloquy (on pp. 40-44 of the manga Hamlet) by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Then, watch “Exploring a Soliloquy.”
4) Watch Patrick Stewart’s “Soliloquy on B” for Sesame Street.
You do not need to proofread this activity, and feel free to respond with incomplete sentences or in bullet point form, whatever is best for your writing process.
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