Characters
This character was murdered before the play even started.
Who is the old King Hamlet?
The country Hamlet is set in
Where is Denmark?
The phrase that follows: "To be, or..."
What is "not to be"?
Where Polonius likes to hide when he wants to gather information.
What is behind an arras (curtain)?
They wrote Hamlet.
Who is Shakespeare?
These two fellows were "hoisted by their own petard".
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
This is the country Hamlet is sent to by ship.
Where is England?
Fill in the blank of Polonius' quote: "Though this be madness, yet there is ____________ in't."
What is "method"?
The place the ghost visits from.
Where is purgatory?
The language Shakespeare's plays are written in
What is English?
This person is first introduced to the audience by Bernardo and Marcellus as "the scholar".
Who is Horatio?
This is the place Ophelia dies.
What is a brook?
Fill in the blank in Hamlet's quote to Ophelia: "Get thee to ____________!"
What is a nunnery?
Fill in the blank: "Something is ___________ in the state of Denmark".
What is "rotten"?
Shakespeare's first name.
What is William?
This person didn't receive the full rights of a Christian burial.
Who is Ophelia?
This is city where Laertes attends university.
Where is Paris?
They say, "Oh Hamlet! Thou hast cleft my heart in twain!"
Who is Gertrude?
This is what Hamlet names the "play within a play" that he writes for the actors to perform in front of Claudius.
What is "The Mousetrap"?
This incredibly well-known romantic tragedy was written by Shakespeare about a decade before Hamlet.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
The new king!
Who is Fortinbras?
The name of the castle where the play is set
They say, "to thine own self be true".
Who is Polonuis?
In his "If it be now, it is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now" speech, Hamlet uses this philosophical viewpoint previously discussed in class.
What is essentialism?
An English monarch during Shakespeare's time whose relative of the same name was the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?