Hamlet General Play Knowledge
Where does the play take place?
Denmark
What seems to be a common theme between the characters wanting revenge?
Their fathers were murdered!!!
“Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge.”
Hamlet
The name of Hamlets supposed "friends", who betray him
ROSENCRANTZ and Guildenstern
Who is the Kings wife?
Gertrude
Who wanted to seek revenge for the death of Polonius?
Laertes
“No place, indeed, should murder Sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.”
Claudius acts as a motivator/manipulator to Laertes to do what act to Hamlet.
Seek REVENGE
What is Hamlets relation to Claudius?
He is his uncle who has married his mother.
Who was seeking revenge for the Ghost of their father?
Hamlet
"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."
The ghost of King Hamlet
Hamlet belongs to which family?
The ROYAL family
Who did Hamlet task to tell the story of what happened in the final act?
Horatio
Why did Hamlet not want to kill Claudius while he was praying?
He was afraid he would go to heaven
"Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. / I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery."
What event happened leading up to Laertes's revenge that added to his anger and desire to act upon his revenge?
The death of Ophelia who drowned (in a RIVER)
Name all of the members of the noble family that plays a large role within the play
Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia
Name the person who is very fast to seek revenge for their father
Laertes
“O, from this point forth my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”
Hamlet
This other Shakespearean character from another play is similar too Hamlet as he is also died for love. (Hamlet died seeking revenge for a father he loved)
ROMEO