Hamlet

Challenge students' understanding of the play's key ideas, emotions, themes and key quotations, with a range of interactive tasks and further research opportunities.

A great starter activity which encourages students to think about and discuss literary and linguistic concepts in the scene.

A series of varied and engaging activities to help students gain confidence when first working on the text of Hamlet. (Line references are to the Wordsworth Classics (1996) edition.) Note: this resource also refers to another Teachit resource 'Understanding Hamlet's ghost scene'.

A worked example followed by a list of quotations with suggestions for analysis to help students sharpen up their skills, leading to an activity focusing on one character. Also available as a Promethean flipchart.

Asks focused questions for each act to enable students to check key elements of their knowledge of the play. Very textually based.

An extensive selection of quotations and accompanying analysis.

How far do you agree? A discussion task to consolidate understanding of the first couple of scenes. Also available as an interactive activity and a Promethean flipchart.

The first line of Hamlet's seven major soliloquies and very brief notes on a presentation.

Gives the essay question, and an extensive selection of relevant critics' quotations.

Select one scene from Hamlet and consider its significance to the play as a whole.

Find the evidence of a disordered state of society in the first act of the play. Design a poster or collage to represent this situation.