Finish the quote
To be or not
to be.
Polonius is their father.
Who is Laertes and Ophelia?
Hamlet's father had only been dead this long before his mother married his uncle.
Two months.
This is Polonius' theory as to Hamlet's madness.
Lovesickness.
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet around this year.
1600.
Brevity is the soul of
wit.
He is the uncle/stepfather of Hamlet.
Who is King Claudius?
The people of Denmark believe that this is how King Hamlet died.
Bitten by a serpent.
King Claudius decides to pack Hamlet off to this kingdom to help restore him to a sound mind.
England.
Hamlet takes place in this Scandinavian country, which in the play is said to have something 'rotten' in it.
Denmark.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
These two lightly doomed fools are Hamlet's childhood friends that Claudius asks to spy on him.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
It was into this bodily orifice that the poison was poured that killed King Hamlet.
The ear.
Ophelia tries to return these to Hamlet only to be cruelly insulted.
His love letters to her.
A speech spoken by a character alone which reveals their innermost thoughts to the audience only.
A soliloquy.
This above all, to thine
own self be true.
He walks in the witching hour when ne'er a pious soul doth dare.
Ghost
In Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be..." soliloquy, "no to be" refers to this.
Suicide.
Ghost tells Hamlet to not revenge himself upon this character.
Queen Gertrude.
In David Tennant's turn as Hamlet, this part of the human body was famously donated for use in the play by a dead Polish composer.
His skull.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love
The first line of the play is delivered by this character, who has a namesake in the famous British crickteer who died at the Battle of Alamein in World War II.
Who is Barnardo?
This is Hamlet's name for the "play within the play" snare that he lays to determine Claudius' guilt.
The "Mousetrap"
Hamlet coldly rejects Ophelia with repeated commands for her to go to this particular place.
A nunnery.
Shakespeare's longest play, Hamlet has this many lines.
4,167