Characters
Who is the protagonist of the play?
Who is Hamlet?
This tragedy happens even before the play even begins.
What is the murder of Old King Hamlet?
"...But you must know, your father lost a father; that father, lost, lost his, and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to obsequious (appropriate to funeral rites) sorrow. But to persevere in obstinate condolement (grief) is a course of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief;..."
What was one quote Claudius said?
The country that the play is set in
What is Denmark?
Apparition
What is a ghost?
This person is the new king of Denmark.
Who is Claudius?
The method that was used to kill King Hamlet
What is the pouring of poison in his ear?
"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treats and decks not his own rede."
What did Ophelia say to warn Laertes not to be a hypocrite?
These countries are at risk at being at war now that old Hamlet are dead.
What are Norway and Denmark?
She married his uncle only a couple months after his father was dead.
Who is Queen Gertrude?
Prince Hamlet's best friend
Who Is Horatio?
This is the name of the kingdom.
What is Elsinore?
"The serpent that did Sting thy father's life Now wears his crown"
What did the ghost (or Old Hamlet) say to reveal that his brother killed him?
The king does this late at night.
What is party and drink? ?
Seek revenge against your uncle, but not your mother.
What does the ghost ask Hamlet (his son) to do?
The first two guards introduced in Scene 1
Who are Bernardo and Francisco?
These are the first two people who see the ghost
Who are Horatio and Marcellus?
"A little more than kin, and less than kind!"
Who is Hamlet?
This is the country where the play takes place.
What is Denmark?
These men do this to reassure Hamlet about their loyalty to him.
What do Horatio and Marcellus swear not to do on their swords to make sure no one knows about the King being murdered?
This is the Prince of Norway
Who is Fortinbras?
He is the first to warn Ophelia about her romance with Hamlet.
Who is Laertes?
"Therefore our sometime sister, now our Queen Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,..."
Who is King Claudius?
This is the country where Laertes attends school.
What is France?
He fears that Hamlet will use Ophelia and not marry her.
Who is Polonious?