Who said it?
“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!“
Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)
Who says the famous words, "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark"?
Marcellus
What is a soliloquy?
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
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What is the name of the theatre where Hamlet was first performed?
The Globe Theatre
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.“
Gertrude (Act 3, Scene 2)
The statement "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" has become an idiom for what?
Corruption
What is the name of the skull Hamlet talks to in Act 5?
Yorrick
True or False: The character of Hamlet has the most lines of any character in all of Shakespeare's plays.
True
"Brevity is the soul of wit.“
Polonius (Act 2, Scene 2)
What is being referred to as rotten in the statement "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
Political corruption (murder of a king that has gone unpunished & a soured relationship with Norway)
Which soliloquy starts off with "O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!"
First soliloquy
Although Fortinbras and his Norwegian army aren't a factor until the end of the play, in the second scene, two ambassadors are sent to Norway. What are their names?
Cornelius and Voltimand
What is the name of the company that performed Hamlet for you yesterday?
A Company of Fools
"My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to the King"
Rosencrantz (Act 4, Scene 2)
Throughout the text, we can trace a path of corruption that leads to death, through images of disease in which characters? (three of them)
Polonius, Hamlet, Claudius
Hamlet says in his 5th soliloquy: "I will speak daggers to her, but use none." What does this mean?
Hamlet wants to speak to his mother, resolving to be brutally honest with her but not lose control of himself
Who speaks the final line in the play?
In what year was Hamlet published?
1600-1601
"O, woe is me, T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"
Ophelia (Act 3, Scene 1)
What does pigeon liver'd symbolize in Hamlet's quote: "But I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall"
The Hamlet is a coward.
What is Hamlet asking in these lines of his Act 3 soliloquy: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
This describes Hamlet's feelings of dismay and helps him contemplate whether it is better to suffer from this constant barrage of bad fortune or to commit suicide and oppose all these things that are the cause of his suffering.
Hamlet calls which character a "sponge . . . that soaks up the king's countenance"?
Rosencrantz
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37