Hamlet interpretations - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

This comprehensive summary of interpretations of 'Hamlet' over time is designed to help you hit AO5, which makes up 50% of your mark in the OCR A-Level Shakespeare whole-text question. The notes are organised in table format to make them easy to follow, with columns for each era, the corresponding overall critical consensus on the play, individual critics and their direct quotations, and then relevant quotations from the play to back up each view

AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7717/2A Paper 2A Texts and genres: Elements of crime writing Version: 1.0 Final IB/G/Jun23/E6 7717/2A Thursday 8 June 2023 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book • a copy of the set text(s) you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write...

AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7717/2A Paper 2A Texts and genres: Elements of crime writing Version: 1.0 Final IB/G/Jun23/E6 7717/2A Thursday 8 June 2023 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book • a copy of the set text(s) you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write...

Film Interpretations of the play Hamlet, following the OCR English Literature Specification

Themes - ANSWER-Unifying ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary or artistic work. Humanities - ANSWER-To learn what it is to be human, not from a biological sense but a cultural sense. To understand what humans believe and why, along with what we have believed in the past and even what we might believe in the future. recurring/universal themes - ANSWER-love and heroes Eros - ANSWER-erotic love Agape - ANSWER-platonic love Archetype - ANSWER-age-old models by wh...

Created by a student who is predicted A*, and obtained all 9s at GCSE, this document contains 57 different quotes of critics, details of performances and interpretations of Hamlet that can be used for the second essay in the exam. The document is organised by character and theme, making it easy to navigate and use to form your arguments.

Critical quotations and Directors Interpretations of 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare, organised by theme.

These 2 documents include a 5 page-long summary of the entirety of the Hamlet play. The second document includes the summary + quotes of the AO5 critical interpretations.

These essay plans cater specifically for Part B of Question 1 in the Drama and Poetry pre-1900 OCR A Level English Literature exam. They cover the eight major themes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet": revenge, corruption, masculinity, familial relationships, uncertainty, madness, loyalty, and women. These themes have a broad range so can be easily 'twisted' on the day of the exam to the exact question. (For example, the question I got was on 'justice and morality', so I incorporated paragraphs from both...