All About Shakespeare
This is the name of the time period that we know little about Hamlet.
What is The Lost Years?
During Shakespeare's time, all female roles were played by _________?
What are young boys?
This is what Barnardo had seen at a prior watch.
What is King Hamlet's Ghost?
This is where Polonius sends Reynaldo.
What is Paris to spy on Laertes?
This is how Polonius dies.
What is Hamlet stabs him through a tapestry?
William Shakespeare was born on what date?
What is April 23, 1564?
This is the name of the people who stood closest to the stage during a play in The Globe Theatre.
This is the advice Laertes gives to Ophelia.
What is stay away from Hamlet and protect her virtue?
This is the arrangement that Hamlet makes with Player 1.
What is having several of his own lines put into the play?
This is the main point of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
What is whether a miserable life is better than the unknown of death?
A Shakespearean sonnet has how many lines?
What is 14?
What are stage directions?
This is where Claudius sends Cornelius and Voltemand.
What is Norway to ask the King to keep Fortinbras from going to battle?
This is the reason why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern come to the castle.
What is to find out why Hamlet is acting so strangely?
This is the message Rosencrantz and Guildenstern delivered to Hamlet from his mother.
What is she wants to see him in her bedroom?
This is the name of the place where Shakespeare was born.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
This is a common type of stage direction which tells an actor that lines are spoken by a character directly to the audience.
What is an aside?
This is the reason why Marcellus thinks Horatio should speak to the ghost.
What is he is a scholar and knows the proper way to address the ghost?
This is why Polonius thinks Hamlet is mad.
What is Ophelia's rejections have been too much for Hamlet and that he is lovesick?
This is what Hamlet compares Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to.
What are snakes?
This is what is unique about Shakespeare's death date.
What is he died on his birthday?
This is the name of the disease that ravaged England in the 16th century.
What is The Black Plague?
This is what young Fortinbras wants to do.
What is regain the lands his father lost to King Hamlet?
This is how Hamlet describes his personal problems to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when Hamlet discovers they were sent for by the King.
What is an erupting volcano?
This is what Hamlet wants his mother to do at the end of Act III.
What is stop sleeping with Claudius?