Play within a play
The name of the play.
What is, The Mousetrap.
Claudius asks Rosencrantz, "Can you by no drift of conference/Get from him why he puts on this _______" (3.1).
What is "confusion?"
What Claudius means by referring to himself and Polonius as "lawful espials" (3.1).
What are "lawful spies?"
"O, I am slain!"
Who is Polonius?
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below./Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Who is, Claudius; these are his closing words at the confessional.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" (3.2)
What is, the Queen's response to the play, after the Player Queen insists that she would never marry again if her husband died.
According to Rosencrantz, Hamlet "does confess he feels himself ________" (3.1).
What is "distracted?"
"And where th' offense is, let the great ax fall."
What is, ironic, because the King says this to Laertes, but this statement applies to himself as well.
"Lo, here I lie,/Never to rise again."
Who is Laertes?
"None wed the second but who killed the first" (3.2).
Who is, the Player Queen?
The "speech" that Hamlet asks for from the Players, as a "taste of" their "quality."
What is, "Aeneas' tale to Dido," especially the part about Priam's slaughter?
How Guildenstern says that Hamlet, "with a crafty _________ keeps aloof/When we would bring him on to some confession of his true state" (3.1).
What is, "madness?"
The play is full of these; it begins with one and even after the death of Hamlet, there are a few.
What are, questions?
"I am poisoned."
Who is, Gertrude?
"Wormwood, wormwood" (3.2).
What is, something bitter?
The "play" that isn't for play, set up by Claudius between Laertes and Hamlet.
What is, a fencing match?
The Queen hopes that Ophelia is the cause of Hamlet's ________.
What is "wildness?"
Groundlings
Who are, play goers who paid the least to stand in the yard of the theater.
"He has my dying voice. So tell him, with th' occurrents more and less/Which have solicited--the rest is silence."
Who is Hamlet?
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will--"
Who is, Hamlet to Horatio?
Vienna.
What is, the setting of the The Mousetrap, and where the murder takes place.
Ophelia laments after her unhappy meeting with Hamlet, "O, what a noble mind is here ______."
What is, "o'erthrown?"
The "little patch of ground" in Poland that Fortinbras' nephew is invading.
What is, land that's not worth much in terms of political or economic value, but represents Fortinbras' ambition and willingness to act, in Hamlet's mind.
"O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt."
Who is Claudius?
"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
Who is Hamlet, after Horatio explains why the grave digger might seem insensitive to his task.