How did they die?
King Hamlet
Claudius poured poison into his ear while he was sleeping in a garden.
Where does the story take place?
Denmark (Elsinore Castle)
Who first sees the ghost?
Barnardo and Marcellus (2 castle guards)
Hamlet
What type of play is Hamlet?
Tragedy
Ophelia
Drowned herself in her grief
Why is the prince of Norway attacking Denmark at the beginning of the play?
To get revenge for his father's murder
What does Polonius tell Ophelia about Hamlet in Act 1?
That he is just using her and that she should stay away from him.
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell."
Polonius
What is a soliloquy?
A speech a character delivers that reflects their inner thoughts and feelings.
Polonius
Stabbed by Hamlet while he was spying behind a tapestry
Who is Polonius?
Advisor to Claudius
He demands the lights be turned on and gets up to leave?
How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself
(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on),
Hamlet
Why did Shakespeare use wordplay?
For humor and to get his audience to think deeply about things.
Laertes
Accidentally hit with the poisoned sword
How do Laertes and Claudius plan to kill Hamlet?
With a poisoned sword during a duel
Who is king of Denmark at the end of the story?
Fortinbras
O Hamlet, speak no more!
Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grainèd spots
As will not leave their tinct.
Gertrude
What is a foil?
Two characters that are used to contrast each other in order to highlight how they are different.
Gertrude
Unknowingly drinks poison from a cup
Whose skull does Hamlet talk to in act 5 scene 1?
Yorick (The court jester)
Where is Hamlet sent after he kills Polonius?
England
It must be se offendendo. It cannot be else. For here
lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues
an act. And an act hath three branches—it is to act, to
do, to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
The gravedigger
What meter did Shakespeare write in?