Background Info
Clauduis’ and Polonious’ assumption for Hamlet’s madness.
What is love?
Hamlet is telling the actors not to do this during the play
What is overact or ad lib.
Where does Claudius plan to send Hamlet?
What is England?
The reason Gertrude calls for help?
What is because she is afraid that her son is going to kill her like he killed Polonius.
Ophelia gives these items back to Hamlet.
What are love letters/poetry from Hamlet?
Hamlet says that Horatio is a steady man who can take "fortune's buffets and rewards" with "equal thanks" before asking him to do this
What is watch the king during the play to confirm whether or not he reacts to the play.
Claudius will have Hamlet escorted to England by
Who are Rosencratz and Guildenstern.
Gertrude is shocked and scared when Hamlet makes a reference to the king’s murder for this reason.
What is Gertrude unaware that Claudius killed Hamlet's Father?
In Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be speech" he compares death to this.
What is sleep?
Hamlet accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of trying to play him like this instrument..
What is a recorder
The Ghost says this to Hamlet, "But look, amazement on thy mother sits./ O, step between her and her fighting soul./ Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works./ Speak to her," because
What is he wants Hamlet to save his mother's soul.
The ghost predicting an ominous future for Denmark is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
Hamlet says that this thing makes cowards of us.
What is conscience?
This person believes that the Player Queen "doth protest too much, methinks."
Who is Queen Gertrude
The reason Hamlet doesn't kill the king at this point because he believed the king was doing this.
What is praying/confessing?
The Ghost criticizes Hamlet by saying, "This visitation/ Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose" because
What is he feels Hamlet is forgetting to avenge is death.
Claudius’ solution to Hamlet’s problem.
What is to send to England?
Claudius reveals his guilt by
What is stopping the play and leaving?
The "HE" being referred to in the following: When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,/ Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed,/ At game, a-swearing, or about some act/ That has no relish of salvation in ’t—/ Then trip him,
Who is Claudius?
Hamlet says "There’s letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows,/ Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,/ They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way/ And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,/ For ’tis the sport to have the enginer/ Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard/ But I will delve one yard below their mines/ And blow them at the moon" meaning
What is he plans on killing Rosencratz and Guildenstern