Character
Who are Ophelia's blood relatives?
Polonius and Laertes
What is an antonym of antipathy?
sympathy
What is the term that shows Hamlet's hate for women?
Misogyny
Approximately how much time has passed between the death of King Hamlet and the remarriage of Gertrude to Claudius?
Two months
What is the name of the theater that most of Shakespeare's plays were performed?
Globe Theatre
Who is the survivor of the play?
Horatio
Tell me three synonyms of ghost.
specter, vision, apparition
Why is Hamlet considered unique among revenge plays?
Because action is repeatedly put off (postponed)
How does Ophelia die?
She drowns in the river.
Name three of Shakespeare's occupations.
playwriter, poet, actor
Finish the Quote: "Alas poor______I knew him, Horatio--a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
Yorick
What does withersoever mean?
Whatsoever
What is Hamlet trying to decide in his “To be” soliloquy?
if he is ready and willing to die
What play does Hamlet want the players to perform?
The Murder of Gonzago
What is the name of a playing company, which Shakespeare mostly wrote for his career?
Lord Chamberlain's men
Who is the character who said, " My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go"
Claudius
There are three meanings of lest. What are those?
so that, to prevent, not to avoid
Why doesn’t Hamlet kill Claudius after the play, before going to his mother’s chamber?
How many characters die during the course of the play? (characters who died after the play begin)
Eight
What is the name of literary work and its author that is known to be the origin of the play "Hamlet"?
Saxo Grammaticus' Amleth
The ghost is first spotted
on the deck of the ship
in Gertrude's chambers
in the graveyard
outside the castle
Tell me three synonyms of mental disorder.
unhinged, perturbation of mind, lunacy, distemper, malady,
Who says the following: “Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.”
Claudius
Why does the apparition appear in Gertrude’s chamber?
What is the name of Shakespeare's wife?
Anne Hathaway