Friendship/ Loyalty

Question 1

Robert C Evans

Answer 1

‘Who is there?’ Epitomises the whole play. Not only does Bernardo want to know whether this thing is a friend or a foe, he wants to know why they are there, are their intentions friendly?

Question 2

John Gielgud horrid creatures

Answer 2

‘R+G are horrible creatures really’

Question 3

John Gielgud

Answer 3

‘All people around hamlet are second rate, hamlet hates second rate people’

Question 4

Richard burton

Answer 4

‘I can only think that they were very nodding acquaintances, R+G doing most of the nodding’

Question 5

Bradshaw

Answer 5

‘R+G are never guilty of the betrayal Hamlet accuses them of, his mind and judgement are deranged by his loathing of Claudius’

Question 6

Richard Burtons Hamlet

Answer 6

Points and sneers when R and G laugh at his jokes

Question 7

David Warner’s Hamlet

Answer 7

Happy enough until he asks why R and G are in Elsinore

Question 8

Gervinus

Answer 8

Horatio only observes never acts

Question 9

Hudson

Answer 9

Horatio is very noble moves very quietly through the play

Question 10

Bradshaw

Answer 10

Hamlet is eloquent about his own thoughts and feelings but rarely considers the thoughts and feelings of others’