Variety of works to analyze: As the AP test will no doubt draw on English works, it's important for us to have a good idea of how to analyze those examples. We seem to have thouroughly covered that with Hamlet. This in-depth study also prepares us for the essay questions; as it is continuously pointed out, “every essay question can be answered with Hamlet (Holmes).”
It also gives us a good lesson about the dangers of 'mislabeling' or using poor descriptions on the AP. As Holmes emphatically explained, the diction in Hamlet is NOT 'Shakespearan or Old English.'
Actually, what I said is that it is not Old English. It IS Shakespearean, or Elizabethan, English. Since I am apparently CONTINUOUSLY and EMPHATICALLY and THOROUGHLY covering this material =) I would like you to retain it, now.
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