Summary In this assignment, you will think about how to adapt Shakespeare's play for a live performance. You will
create a digital storyboard that shows how you would adapt Hamlet's soliloquy to present it to a modern
audience.
Assignment Prompt
Read Hamlet's soliloquy, and then write an adaptation of it in contemporary English. Focus on
maintaining the meaning and tone of the original by paying close attention to the impact of word choice.
Use the Hamlet figures and speech bubbles to show how an actor would perform your adaptation. Be
sure that there is a strong relationship between the gestures of the figures and the meaning and tone of
the text.

i believe it may be the hope this sorry if i'm wrong.

i decided to stay late in the laboratory to continue my experiment with the lightbulb. at midnight, thomas edison opened the door and saw all the stuff he was working on. the lightbulb, film and the transmitter. as he walks in an idea hits him on how the lightbulb would work. he would have to change a few wires around to get it to light up. when he did change the wires around it worked so he decided to write a telegraph to his friend to tell him about his success.   as he was packing up he grabbed the telegraph and walked to his home. he told his wife about the success and the next morning mailed the telegraph.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "