Tragi-comedy in Hamlet and the tragic ending of the play. With specific reference to Hamlet, discuss and analyze this statement with focus on Shakespeare’s use of comedy in a tragic scene.

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Organisation of the Term Paper
– Formulate a research question as a basis for your argument (you can also begin by making a claim or expressing a hypothesis).
– Develop an argument; this means, you need to interpret, explain and argue, rather than just summarise what others have said.
– Avoid simple plot summaries.
– Make sure that your paper is structured logically.
– Check that your sentences follow on from each other; this is, check for coherence.
– Avoid subjective statements. Instead support your interpretations with evidence from the text or arguments from scholarly background sources: “this phrase can be interpreted as xyz because …” Remember the phrase “no evaluation without justification”.
– Note that good papers move been general comments and specific discussions of details.
– I need a summary of the whole term paper (in a separate paper).

Language and Presentation
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– Check that your sentences are complete.
– Read your paper through carefully before submitting it so that you can avoid basic grammatical errors (agreement, tense inconsistency, spelling).

Quotations
– Quotations from literary works and scholarly background sources need to be identified by quotation marks.
– Give page numbers in brackets after quotations from individual literary works.
– Type out any quotation accurately (mistakes in your quotations are embarrassing).
– Remember that quotations need to be interpreted; this is, you need to explain why you quoted a particular passage. (Rule of thumb: your interpretation should be longer than the passage you have quoted.)
– You need to refer to at least 4 scholarly essays.
– All quotations need to be acknowledge appropriately.
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