Hamlet (AP English Literature) Flashcards

Hamlet

2965187481	Setting	Castle Elsinore in Denmark	0
2965187482	Hamlet	Son of the dead king/Prince of Denmark	1
2965187483	Claudius	Brother of the dead king	2
2965187484	Gertrude	Hamlet's mother who remarries her husband's brother	3
2965187485	Polonius	Chief adviser to King Claudius--father to Ophelia and Laertes	4
2965187486	Horatio	Hamlet's close friend from school, who is loyal and helpful to Hamlet--lives to tell the story	5
2965187487	Ophelia	Polonius's daughter/Laertes's sister--Hamlet in love with her	6
2965187488	Laertes	Polonius's son/brother to Ophelia--spends much of his time in France	7
2965187489	The Ghost	Hamlet's recently deceased father, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius	8
2965187490	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern	Two former friends of Hamlet who are asked to discover the cause of Hamlet's strange behavior	9
2965187491	Tragedy	A serious play about a great man with a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall	10
2965187492	First Folio	published in 1623 by Heminge and Condell, this was the first collection of Shakespeare's 36 plays	11
2965187493	Aside	Words spoken by a character that the other characters cannot hear	12
2965187494	Foil	Character who contrasts with the main character	13
2965187495	soliloquy	A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.	14
2965187496	Vitruvian Man	drawing by da Vinci that placed human form both within a square and a circle	15
2965187497	Renaissance	cultural and artistic movement that began in Italy and later spread throughout western Europe	16
2965187498	Reformation	a religious movement in western Europe that began as an attempt to reform the church that ended up splitting western Christianity	17
2965187499	Bruneleschi	An architect who completed the Church of San Lorenzo and the dome in the Cathedral of Florence, he is also credited with developing the concept of linear perspective	18
2965187500	Humanism	A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements	19
2965187501	New Criticism	A school of literary criticism that claims that the text is all, rejecting all other concerns as extraneous	20
2965187502	Feminist Criticism	A school of literary criticism that explores the concerns of female writers, female characters and women's role in art and popular culture	21
2965187503	New Historicism	An approach to literature that emphasizes the interaction between the historic context of the work and a modern reader's understanding and interpretation of the work.	22
2965187504	Wittenberg	German Town in which Martin Luther tacked up his 49 Theses on the church door. Some historians claim this marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. In the play both Hamlet and Horatio have attended the university here.	23