[Prompt A] How is the mood of Shakespeare’s Hamlet similar to and/or different from the mood of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? You should address three of the devices playwrights use to establish mood and incorporate concrete examples from the plays to substantiate your response.

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[Prompt B] What is one of the major themes which unites Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? And, how are the playwrights’ treatments of the theme similar and/or different? You should incorporate concrete examples from the plays to substantiate your response.

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I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try. Besides, I wouldn’t do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued. I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?

[Prompt C] The excerpt above is from which of the featured works? How is the selection situated in the work as a whole? Who created the work and (approx.) when did they create it? What are the defining characteristics of the work and the period in which it was created?

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[Prompt E] How is Poe’s The Bells similar to and/or different from Chopin’s Funeral March? You should substantiate your response with details about the formal characteristics and historical circumstances of both.

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[Prompt D] How is Williams’ Imperial March similar to and/or different from Holst’s Mars – Bringer of War? You should substantiate your response with details about the formal characteristics and historical circumstances of both.

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[Prompt F] Raphael is known for his mastery of which three Principles of Design? You should substantiate your response with details about the formal characteristics of three or more of the featured paintings by Raphael.