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Polonius and Claudius hid behind this while spying on Hamlet and Ophelia.
What is an arras?
Hamlet takes place in this country.
What is Denmark?
"...Our state to be disjoint and out of frame."
What is corruption?
"O, I am slain!"
Who is Polonius?
He has the intention to attack Denmark.
Who is Fortinbras the Younger?
When Hamlet went to Ophelia in a craze, this was not fully buttoned.
What is a doublet?
Hamlet's father's name.
What is Hamlet?
"O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!"
What is gender?
"Shall I strike it with my partisan?"
Who is Marcellus?
They aren't specifically pregnant.
Who is Ophelia?
"Get thee to a..."
What is a nunnery?
The two siblings in the play.
Who are Laertes and Ophelia?
"The dram of evil doth all the noble substance of a doubt, to his own scandal."
What is corruption?
"Oh, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven."
Who is Claudius?
They are sent to check on Laertes in Paris.
Who is Reynaldo?
Laertes left after this happened to King Claudius.
What is the coronation?
Rhyming sections of dialogue represent this in Shakespeare's plays.
What are rhyming couplets, signifying important lines?
"Since nor th' exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was."
What is perception vs reality?
"It is as easy as lying."
Who is Hamlet?
This person doesn't want to see Gertrude hurt.
Who is King Hamlet/the ghost?
An "ill-phrase, a vile phrase."
What is "most beautified Ophelia?"
Fortinbras hails from, and holds the rank of this, from this country.
What is the Crown Prince of Norway?
"There's letters sealed, and my two schoolfellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged, they bear the mandate. They must sweep my way and marshal me to knavery."
What is revenge?
"Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!"
Who is Ophelia?
Played Julius Caesar at his university's drama production.
Who is Polonius?