Who said that quote?
"I will wear him in my heart's core".
Hamlet (about Horatio)
Hamlet wants to speak seriously with his mother, but not kill her.
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none".
What is Hamlet contemplating when he says, "To be or not to be"?
suicide, life and death
What is the name of the mime before the play?
The Dumb-show.
After what event does this soliloquy occur?
The performance of "The Murder of Gonzago".
"We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us".
Hamlet
Polonius announces that he has been stabbed.
"O, I am slain".
Why does Hamlet decide that he will not commit suicide?
He is frightened of the afterlife.
Who does Hamlet sit next to during the play?
Ophelia
What figurative devices is used in the line, "O bosom black as death"?
alliteration and simile
"There's something in his soul, o'er which his melancholy sits on brood".
Claudius
Hamlet remembers that his own father was killed before he could confess.
"A took my father grossly, full of bread".
Finish this quote: "Thus conscience..."
does make cowards of us all"
By what other name is "The Murder of Gonzago" known by?
"The Mousetrap".
What is the "primal eldest curse"?
a brother killing a brother
"I did enact Julius Caesar".
Polonius
In an aside, Claudius reveals his guilt.
"How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
...
O heavy burden".
Give a quote from the soliloquy that discusses the problems a powerful person faces.
"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"
What is the name of Gonzago's wife?
Baptista
Why can't Claudius pray?
Because he can't give up his crown, his wife or his life.
"If, once a widow, ever I be wife".
Player Queen
Ophelia has seen Hamlet's decline from a noble youth into madness.
"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown
...
O woe is me
T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see".
Who does Hamlet see at the end of the soliloquy?
Ophelia
Who murders Gonzago?
Lucianus, nephew of the King.
Give the quote that shows what Claudius will have to give up if he repents.
"My crown, mine own ambition and my queen"