Shakespeare

Answer these "Pre-Will"questions in a post on your blog:
a) What do you already know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"? 
 Hamlet was the son a King who died suddenly and mysteriously. The king's brother, then marries the Queen, hamlet's mum. He gets verrryyy upset about this and feels like everyone is against him. However, there is talk of a strange phenomenon going on within the walls of the palace. Hamlet's good friend Horatio tells the Prince that he has seen a ghost that resembles the dead king. Hamlet goes to see for himself and sure enough it is his father's ghost which tells him that Hamlet's uncle poisoned him. Things happen, "To be or not to be," and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern come and say hey, but Hamlet gets mad at them because the king and queen sent them to spy on him etc. He is very revengeful, but at the same time very cautious, we see this when he holds the play, that was his test. Hamlet is also very deep in his thoughts, he gets lost in them often and doesn't trust anyone else, sometimes not even himself. He pushes friends away only to wish he had more of them and he can also be VERY silly at times. "More like a whale." XD

b) What do you know about Shakespeare? 
I know that he is my home-skillet and he had a wife named Anne Hathaway but he had many mistresses. He wrote for the Globe Theater and many of his works were copied from other writers and then he revised them to suit the stage.

c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
 That's a good question... I think it's because they don't understand him very well. His words are very complex and his sentences, intricate.

d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
make it more relative to their lives, some how. Because Shakespeare's themes are universal any one could connect with at least one of his plays.