Hamlet's Family
The name of the city where all the events in the play take place.
Copenhagen
Silkeborg
Elsinore
Denmark
What is Elsinore?
Polonius' daughter; Hamlet's girlfriend
Who is Ophelia?
A speech that is often used as a device in a drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and what happens to them?
What is Hamlet's "Friends" sent to their death in England via Hamlet?
He says "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that teh Everlasting had not fixed His cannon 'gainst self slaughter." What does it mean?
What is Hamlet speaking on the sin of taking your own life?
The school that Hamlet was attending when his father was killed.
Whittenberg
Ohio State
Oxford
Cambridge
What is Whittenberg?
The country Laertes resides in. Polonius sends a spy there to check up on his son.
What is France?
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). (Not Metaphor)
What is an Allusion?
These are the two reasons that Claudius doesn't simply kill Hamlet himself.
What is he is loved by the people and his mother?
He says "To be or not to be, that is the question, Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them; to die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause...." What does it mean?
What is Hamlet speaking on the choice between taking his own life or not?
The two reasons Hamlet gives for not taking his own life in his "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
What is It is a sin, and he is not sure what will happen next?
The reason, according to the gravediggers, that Ophelia is given a Christian burial even though her death is suspicious.
What is she is a gentlewoman?
A literary technique used to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
He is angry because his father was killed in battle, and he wages war on Poland to get revenge. Hamlet admires him. Hamlet recommends that he become king with his dying breath.
Who is Fortinbras?
He says "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder." What does it mean?
Who is Claudius speaking on his action of killing his own brother?
Hamlet's tragic flaw. (It even costed him his life)
What is procrastination?
Reason that Polonius assumes Hamlet is crazy.
What is love for Ophelia?
Lines in a play that describe where and when a scene takes place, how an actor should deliver their lines, and how the actor should move on stage.
What are stage directions?
The two names that the play-within-a-play are known as. (One Hamlet played for Claudius
What is "The Mouse Trap" and "The Murder of Ganzago"?
HE says "I am justly killed with my own treachery." What does it mean?
Who is Laertes speaking about how his plan backfired and got him killed?
The name of the former king of Denmark.
What is Hamlet?
The killer of Polonius.
Who is Hamlet?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things. Use the example below:
"The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown."
What is a Metaphor?
Ophelia hands these out to people after she goes crazy - they each represent something.
What are flowers?
HE says "Up Sword, and know thou a more horrid hent, When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, At game, a-swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation in it, Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell whereto it goes." What does it mean?
Who is Hamlet speaking on waiting for the right time to kill Claudius so he will go to Hell?