plumiHamlet: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions
Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on Hamlet, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 18 questions on Hamlet, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents masculinity in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q4 (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 readin
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q4 (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
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of grief in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q4 (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.
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents heroism in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q4 (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.
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): 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 critic
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q4 (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.
- October 2020, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents Claudius in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- October 2020, Paper 1, Q4 (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 readi
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents the theme of deception in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical r
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q4 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and idea
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents uncertainty in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q4 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents Ophelia in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q3 (35 marks): Explore how Shakespeare presents suffering in Hamlet. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and ideas from your critical reading.
- June 2017, Paper 1, Q4 (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 crit
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