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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.
Hamlet: O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within’s two hours.
Ophelia: Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord.
Hamlet: So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year; but, by ’r lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, ‘For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is forgot.’
How does the excerpt exemplify Elizabethan drama?
by exploring human emotions
by referencing Biblical concepts
by addressing political policies
by praising the lives of saints
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by exploring human emotions
The passage shows Hamlet’s complex feelings about grief, mourning, memory, and anger (irony, bitterness at his mother’s cheerfulness and his father’s quick “forgetting”), a hallmark of Elizabethan drama’s focus on psychological depth.
The passage shows Hamlet’s complex feelings about grief, mourning, memory, and anger (irony, bitterness at his mother’s cheerfulness and his father’s quick “forgetting”), a hallmark of Elizabethan drama’s focus on psychological depth.
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