Hamlet

**__Hamlet__ Research Project**
**Assignment: Write an annotated bibliography with proper APA style and formatting on a topic related to Shakespeare's** __**Hamlet** __**.**
 * Read this entire page carefully and more than once.**

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**Process:** **1. Choose one of the following paper topics. You do not each have to have separate topics, however, you are not to be working together. Too much conferring will lead you into collaboration on this project, which will translate as "cheating." This is an individual research projectjust like college.** **2. Develop a guiding question for your paper.** **3. Develop a preliminary thesis statement/guiding statement for your paper (related to your guiding question).** **4. Conduct research and find ten sources, five of which must be non-Web sources*****(see below)*** **5. Begin developing your Annotated Bibliography. Cite all sources in APA format.** **6. Develop a preliminary outline of your paper.** **7. Further develop your Annotated Bibliography. Tell what the source is and how it has been used and how it will be used (see examples).** **8. Edit and restructure your outline.** **9. Further develop your Annotated Bibliography. Refer to your outline within Annotated Bibliography.** **10. Finalize the structure of your outline.** **11. Finalize your Annotated Bibliography.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">**12. Turn in your work in the following order with APA style and formatting:**


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">Title Page (with running header to follow on subsequent pages) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Abstract **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Outline **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Reference page (annotated bibliography) **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">***Finding sources:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">**This is not as difficult as it sounds. Look, here are three automatic sources of which you probably haven't yet thought:**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">one source will be to cite the text of the play (the book in which we are reading the play) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 1.5;">one source will be to cite the Perrine anthology (your textbook from which you have learned much about drama) **
 * ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">one source will be to cite <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">class lecture with Ms. Lee **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 1.5;">Suggestions/examples of ****<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;"> non-Web sources: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">magazine articles **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">books **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">other of my English textbooks be they from my college courses or the other classes I teach **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">study guides **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">teaching guides/unit plans **
 * *I have some great non-Web resources -- ask me.* **


 * Sources to avoid like the plague: **
 * **Other research papers or essays online**
 * **Wikipedia**
 * **About.com**
 * **ChaCha**


 * Sources that I'm not going to be too keen on: **
 * ** More than one "helper" source like Sparknotes, Cliffsnotes, MonkeyNotes, etc. **

Citations: Text of Hamlet

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">FOREWARD: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Patt, J. (1988). //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hamlet (Foreward) //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (pp. vii-xv). New York, NY: Bantam Books.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">THE PLAY:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Shakespeare, W. (1988). //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hamlet //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (pp. 1-148). New York, NY: Bantam Books.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">INTRODUCTION:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Benington, D. (Ed.). (1988). //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hamlet //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (pp. xix-xxxi). New York, NY: Bantam Books.


 * LECTURE -- This isn't exactly with APA, but cite lecture this way: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lee, M. (2013). //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Study of Drama and Shakespeare //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (Lecture). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Courier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Portland, MI: St Patrick School.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma;">__Hamlet__ Essay Topics
<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**2)** Discuss and analyze how Hamlet's seven soliloquies reveal his character. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**3)** Is __Hamlet__ primarily a tragedy of revenge? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**4)** Discuss and analyze Hamlet's relationship with Gertrude. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**5)** How important is the general setting of Denmark to the overall play? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**6)** Of what significance is Ophelia to Hamlet? Was Hamlet truly in love with Ophelia? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**7)** The character Claudius has been compared to Macbeth. How similar are these two characters? In what ways are they similar? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**8)** Compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and Horatio. How alike or dislike are they and why? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**9)** In Act 5, scene 2, Hamlet remarks, "His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy." Explain Hamlet's motivation behind this comment and examine how true is his remark. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**10)** Compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and Fortinbras. Is Fortinbras a valuable character in his own right or does he serve only to highlight aspects of Hamlet's personality? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**11)** What is Goethe's opinion of Hamlet? Do you agree with his famous conclusions? <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**12)** Discuss the references to the English stage of Shakespeare's own time in Act II. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**13)** Christian rituals and customs within the play <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**14)** Madness and insanity within the play <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**15)** Appearance versus reality within the play <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**16)** Juxtaposition of secondary plot lines and characters to the main plot lines and characters <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**17)** Discuss and analyze Ophelia's relationships with all other characters in the play <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**19)** Hamlet and Macbeth as tragic heroes <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">**20)** The importance and nature of the ghost upon the play
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;"> Conflict is essential to drama. Show that __<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">Hamlet __<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;"> presents both an outward and inward conflict.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;">18) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: medium;"> The importance of __Hamlet__ as the quintessential Shakespearean play.