Characters
Hamlet's best friend
Who is Horatio?
The first sign that something is wrong at the castle.
What is: the ghost walking in the night?
Hamlet's most famous line from this play.
What is "to be or not to be"?
What Hamlet does to prove that the King is guilty.
What is: put on a play called the Mousetrap?
The place old King Hamlet is stuck for some time.
What is purgatory?
the young man who agrees to kill Hamlet to avenge his own father
Who is Laertes?
The old religious belief that Hamlet uses to compare his father to his uncle.
What is Greek mythology?
What Barnardo says to describe that something is not right in the country.
What is: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark?
The reason why Hamlet murders Polonuis.
What is: because he thinks he is the King?
What is a nunnery?
The advisor to the King and father of Ophelia
Who is Polonius?
The kind of green place that Hamlet compares Denmark to.
What is an unweeded garden?
What old King Hamlet said to tell Hamlet that his own brother killed him and took his place (compares him to a reptile).
What is "The serpent that stung me now wears my crown"?
The request to Hamlet that sets the main action into play.
What is: old King Hamlet's request for his son to avenge him?
How Hamlet escapes his execution in England.
What is: his ship is boarded by pirates and he sail with them to Denmark?
Hamlet calls the King and Queen this (a mix of two familiar relations)
What is uncle-father and aunt-mother?
How Hamlet describes the marraige between his mother and his uncle.
What is incestuous?
The person who says "Hamlet, thou has cleft my heart in twain"
Who is Gertrude?
What The King and Polonius do to find out if Hamlet really is insane.
What is: let Ophelia meet Hamlet in the hall while they hide and observe?
The name of the castle where the action takes place.
What is Elsinore?
The two friends who are escorting Hamlet to his execution in England
Who are Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern?
The main motif that runs through the entire play.
What is rot?
The very last words uttered by Hamlet before he dies.
What is "the rest is silence"?
The reason why Hamlet doesn't kill the King in the chapel.
What is: he thinks he is praying and will go to heaven.
What Hamlet says to Horatio that he will do to find the truth without anyone suspecting him of snooping.
What is: put on an antic disposition?