Unit: Hamlet

Encourage readers to determine if Hamlet's madness is actually divinest sense. Class members analyze the words of the play before studying related texts, including T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," scenes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," and several articles by literary critics. The culminating AP-style essay then asks individuals to use what they have learned to analyze the essential question of Hamlet's sanity—or lack thereof. Truly, a resource devoutly to be wished.