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Mrs. Biernat will review the length, format,  MLA documentation, and due date for your term paper. You have two topics for this paper: 1) Though the ghost of King Hamlet tells Prince Hamlet, "I am thy father's spirit"  (1.5.10), there are other characters and critics who suggest that this spirit is not who he claims to be, that he may be an evil spirit hoping to take advantage of Hamlet's weak, grieving, soul. Is the ghost of King Hamlet good or evil? In considering this question, you must research and discuss Elizabethan understanding of beliefs in ghosts, supernatural occurrences/beings, the occult. Cite specific examples. 2) Through his own admission, Hamlet makes the audiences aware that he can "put an antic disposition on" (1.5.181) and that he is only "mad north - north - west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw" (2.2.378-379). In other words, Hamlet tells us his madness is all an act. There are other critics who suggest that at times during the play, hamlet is truly mad or mentally deranged. How did the Elizabethans understand madness? Does Hamlet, in his words, thoughts, and actions, fit the Elizabethan picture of madness or not? Cite specific examples.
Shakespeare Books Available @ Stissing Mountain Library
Shakespeare for Students                                             Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes
REF                                                                           Lily B.Campbell
822.3                                                                         822.3
                                                                                 CAM
Readingon the Tragedies of William Shakespeare
822.3                                                                         Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
REA                                                                           REF   
822.3                                                                          822.3
                                                                                  OXF
Shakespeare and His World
Ivor Brown                                                                 The New History of Literature
822.3                                                                          English Drama to 1710
BRO                                                                           822.009
                                                                                  ENG
Modern Critical Interpretations
Williams Shakespeare's Hamlet                                      The Cambridge Companion to
822.3                                                                          Shakespeare Studies
WILL                                                                         822.3
                                                                                 WEL
Shakespeare A to Z
Charles Boyce                                                              William Shakespeare The Tragedies
REF                                                                             Paul Jorgensen
822.3                                                                           822.3
BOY                                                                            JOR

Shakespeare The Invention of the Human                        The Readers' Encyclopedia of
Harold Bloom                                                                Shakespeare
822.33                                                                          REF
BLO                                                                             822.3
                                                                                   CAM
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