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Edexcel A Level English Literature

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Hamlet

20 questions · 700 marks · about 26.5 hours

Hamlet questions

TopicHamlet

Edexcel 9ET0 Hamlet 20 questions

Component 1: Drama June 2025, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents masculinity in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2025, Question 4 35 marks

Explore the presentation of pretence in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2024, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2024, Question 4 35 marks

Explore the extent to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play full of doubt and confusion. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2023, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of grief in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2023, Question 4 35 marks

Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of Laertes in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2022, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents heroism in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2022, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare makes use of settings in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama November 2021, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare makes use of acting and the theatre in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama November 2021, Question 4 35 marks

Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of Polonius in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama November 2020, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents Claudius in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama October 2020, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents Claudius in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama November 2020, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare presents the theme of death in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama October 2020, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare presents the theme of death in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2019, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents the theme of deception in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2019, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2018, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents uncertainty in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2018, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare presents Ophelia in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2017, Question 3 35 marks

Hamlet

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Explore how Shakespeare presents suffering in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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Component 1: Drama June 2017, Question 4 35 marks

Explore how Shakespeare makes use of the play within the play in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.

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