ACT I
This is the setting at the outset of the play.
What is the battlements?
At the beginning of Act II, Polonius gives Reynaldo this task.
What is, spying on Laertes?
Claudius and Polonius do this to determine the nature of Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia.
What is hide behind a curtain (arras) and listen to them interacting?
People are looking for this at the start of Act IV
What is Polonius's body?
Hamlet holds this man's skull and laments his being dead.
Who is Yorick?
Including exposition, the ghost has appeared this many times by the end of Act I.
What is four. (Twice in exposition, once for Horatio and once for Hamlet)
Voltemand relays this good news to Claudius and Gertrude.
What is, Norway is now planning to invade Poland, not Denmark?
This is where Hamlet says Ophelia should go.
What is to a nunnery?
This is where Hamlet first tells the King Polonius is.
At dinner (with worms).
This character is the first to die during the swordfight.
Who is Queen Gertrude?
In Scene 2, Laertes asks permission to do this.
What is head back to France?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet that they passed this on the road to the castle.
What is a travelling theatre group?
Hamlet asks this friend to keep an eye on Claudius during the play.
Who is Horatio?
Hamlet meets this group when leaving for England.
Who is the Norwegian army?
Hamlet tells Horatio that he did this to seal Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's fate.
What is swapped out the letters asking England to kill Hamlet for letters asking England to kill R &G?
Both her brother and father give Ophelia this advice.
What is stay away from Hamlet?
Hamlet tells R & G that he is not really crazy. He reveals this by saying that when the wind is southerly, he can tell the difference between these two things.
What is a hawk and a handsaw?
Hamlet tells Ophelia that this is the name of the play.
What is The Mousetrap?
Laertes returns planning to exact revenge from this character.
Who is King Claudius?
This leads to Laertes's fate.
What is the switching of the rapiers?
The ghost uses this metaphor to indicate that he was murdered, and by Claudius.
What is the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown.
This is ironic about Polonius's speech to Claudius and Gertrude.
What is he says he will be brief and then goes on and on?
This is the reason Hamlet gives for not killing Claudius after the play.
Claudius and Laertes plot to prepare these two things to ensure Hamlet's death.
This is the last sound of the play.
What is the firing of guns?