The name of the castle where all the events in the play take place.
What is Elsinore?
100
Polonius' daughter; Hamlet's girlfriend
Who is Ophelia?
100
A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on stage, intended only for the audience.
What is an aside?
100
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and what happens to them?
They are Hamlet's friends who spy on Hamlet for the King. Hamlet has the King of England kill them.
100
Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed.
Who is Ophelia?
200
The school that Hamlet was attending when his father was killed.
What is Wittenberg?
200
The country Laertes resides in. Polonius sends a spy there to check up on his son.
What is France?
200
A speech that is often used as a device in a drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
200
Ophelia hands this "flower" to Laertes to make him "remember".
What is rosemary?
200
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause....
Who is Hamlet?
300
Two reasons Hamlet hasn't killed himself, according to Hamlet.
What is it's a sin, and he doesn't know what will come next.
300
The reason, according to the gravediggers, that Ophelia is given a Christian burial even though her death is suspicious.
What is because she is a gentlewoman?
300
A play on words, very popular with Shakespeare.
What is a pun?
300
These are the two reasons that Claudius doesn't simply kill Hamlet himself.
What are 1) he is loved by the people and 2) he is loved by Gertrude.
300
O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.
Who is Claudius?
400
Hamlet's major hamartia.
What is procrastination?
400
Reason that Polonius assumes Hamlet is crazy.
What is he assumes Hamlet is mad for Ophelia's love?
400
A reference in literature to another story that the audience would typically have prior knowledge of (such as Claudius comparing his story to that of Cain and Abel).
What is an allusion?
400
The strongest foil to Hamlet. Explain why.
Who is Fortinbras?
400
"I am justly killed with my own treachery."
Who is Laertes?
500
The "place" from where Old Hamlet returns.
What is purgatory/limbo?
500
The meaning of the name "Ophelia".
What is "help"?
500
The "fancy" name for one of the major themes of the play; people trying to seize power through less-than-legal channels.
What is usurpation?
500
The two names that the play-within-a-play are known as.