The opening lines by Hamlet in this scene show Shakespeare's contempt for this part of British society.
What is theater or actors?
100
Claudius plans to send these two with Hamlet to England.
What is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
100
Gertrude is referring to this person when she says, "Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended."
What is Claudius?
100
This is the title of the play according to Hamlet.
What is the Mousetrap?
100
When Hamlet says that Polonius playing Julius Caeser was a "brutish" part, he is using this literary device.
What is a pun?
200
Horatio will be watching Claudius during the performance, but Hamlet will most likely be watching this person
What is Gertrude?
200
Claudius makes the allusion of a brother's murder, referring to this Biblical pair.
What is Cain and Abel?
200
Hamlet is referring to this person when he says, "Mother, you have my father much offended."
What is King Hamlet?
200
The first part of the performance is considered this type, noted for its lack of words.
What is a dumb show?
200
Hamlet failing to kill Claudius while he prayed when the prayer was meaningless is an example of this.
What is irony?
300
Hamlet makes a number of pointed statements about women as he teases Ophelia during the performance. One has to do with his comparison to this and the short prologue.
What is a woman's love?
300
Claudius doesn't feel sorry for what he has done as he prays because he doesn't want to give up any two of these three things he feels he earned.
What is queen, crown, and ambition?
300
This person dies at the end of the scene.
What is Polonius?
300
The Player Queen is disturbed by the idea of this when her Player King suggests it.
What is marrying another man when he is gone.
300
Claudius says, "My offence is rank. It smells to Heaven."
What is a metaphor?
400
It isn't the enactment of the murder of the first king that upsets Claudius, but rather this act that suggests something troubling to him.
What is the murder of the second king by his nephew who would then get the love of the Player Queen.
400
Hamlet won't kill Claudius while praying because he fears this.
What is Claudius will go to Heaven?
400
The ghost may be a sign of one of these three things
What is Hamlet's guilt, Hamlet's insanity, or the ghost is real, but kept hidden from Gertrude.
400
Gertrude's reaction to the Player Queen
What is "the lady doth protest too much". (Meaning she's talking too much or revealing too much about her feelings.)
400
Hamlet notes, "Thus conscience makes cowards of us all."
What is personification?
500
Hamlet uses these instruments to show how angry he is at his friends for thinking they can play him so easily.
What is a recorder?
500
Hamlet would much rather kill Claudius when he is engaged in something sinful, including this act that continues to show Hamlet's obsession with his mother.
What is in bed with Gertrude?
500
Hamlet reveals this to his mother at the end of the scene.
What is he's not crazy?
500
The name of the nephew in the play who kills the Player King.
What is Lucianus?
500
Hamlet, just before visiting his mother. "Let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom""