Hamlet Textual Analysis Act 2

Act IV Write Up In the production of Act IV I played Ophelia, Queen Gertrude, and the narrator. I wrote my lines as well as some of the others. I chose to present Ophelia as distracted and not entirely together. She spends the majority of this act singing about her father’s death and Hamlet’s betrayal. The other characters, from Horatio, to the King and Queen, to her own brother, calls her mad throughout the scene. While she is most certainly aware of what’s going on, she seems to be viewing it through a different lens than the others. Her thoughts appear to be fractured and confused. Her emotions are very unstable and the tone that I felt she would use was light and airy. I tried to make her voice sound like a mixture between someone who