Act I
Married to the king
Gertrude
tells Hamlet about how the old king died
The Ghost
Why Hamlet does not kill Claudius right after the play
Because he is praying and does not want him to go to heaven
Dies by drowning
Ophelia
Fortinbras
The royal court name that Hamlet is set in
Elsinore
Away at school for most of the play
Laertes
The character that helps Hamlet observe Claudius's reaction during the play.
Horatio
Character that flatters Laertes's fencing skills from Normandy
Claudius
The skull buried in the graveyard and how long it has been there.
The King's Jester Yorick, he has been there 23 years.
Who says "To thine own self be true"
Polonius to Laertes
The reason why Hamlet fakes his madness
To act as crazy as he wants and nobody will question him
What Hamlet is really doing during “To be or not to be”
He is reasoning through why people don’t commit suicide
The people that help take Hamlet back from England
The pirates
Who accidentally drinks Poison from the cup
Gertrude
Who and why do they say "A little more than kin and less than kind"
Hamlet about Claudius: basically how his uncle is his dad now and he has bad feelings towards him.
Who says “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I.”
Hamlet to himself
Calls themselves a “coward” for delaying action
Hamlet
Happened to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
They are killed in England.
Horatio’s role at the end of the play
To tell Hamlet's story to actually explain what happened
Who says "Something is rotten in Denmark" and why?
Marcellus about how Denmark is on the brink of war with Norway
How Gertrude feels about Hamlet and the reason behind that feeling
She feels concerned because even though she does not understand what he is going through, she still loves him and wants him to be okay.
What Hamlet asks Ophelia of during the play
To lay his head in her lap
Why Laertes agrees to Claudius’ plan
To get revenge for his father and Ophelia
The realization that Hamlet has while holding the skull
Talks about his amazement that someone’s life can amount to nothing in death