Shakespeare's Hamlet Characterization Activity -- Worksheets, Bell-Ringers

Freshen up your lesson plans and help your students begin to analyze and keep track of the characters in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. Students analyze the given prompts based on the text to determine what it suggests about the character.

Characters included are:

• Hamlet

• Gertrude

• Ophelia

• Polonius

• Laertes

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

• Horatio

• The Ghost

• Claudius

Aside from individual classwork, use these nine worksheets as a quick group activity (each group takes a different character), as bell-ringers or exit slips, or even as a quick quiz. They also make great substitute lessons if you are absent while teaching the play.

What more Hamlet activities? Check out the following:

Why Should You Read Hamlet? TED-Ed Worksheet With Answer Key

Shakespeare's Hamlet FOUR Soliloquy Close Reading Worksheets, Activities

Hamlet Introductory Presentation Activity

Want more SHAKESPEARE resources? Check out the following:

• Shakespeare Introductory PowerPoint - 42 Slides Featuring His Life and Times (recently updated with more slides!)

• Shakespearean Insults Activity Cards

• Shakespeare Figurative Language Task Cards: Bell-Ringers, Quizzes, Worksheet

• Introduction to Shakespearean Language PowerPoint

• Romeo and Juliet Unit Plan, Worksheets, Projects, PowerPoints, Essays

• Macbeth Bundle: Unit Plan, Worksheets, Projects, PowerPoints, Essays

• Othello Bundle: Worksheets, Study Guide, Task Cards, Projects

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