Shakespeare's Life and Times
Characters
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
100

The Queen of England when Shakespeare was born

Who is Queen Elizabeth I?

100

Hamlet's best friend and only character he can trust.

Who is Horatio?

100

The reason Horatio doesn't want Hamlet to follow the ghost

What is the Protestant belief that all ghosts are either demons or angels?

100
The reason Polonius sends Laertes to Paris 

What is Laertes wants to go home after King Claudius' coronation?

100

The reason Claudius wants to send Hamlet to England

What is because King Claudius is suspicious of Hamlet?

200

The name of Shakespeare's Theatre 

What is the Globe Theatre? 

200

This character has been reincarnated as the ghost

Who is King Hamlet?
200

How Claudius, Gertrude and King Hamlet are all related.

What is brothers and sister in law? 
200
Polonius' explanation for Hamlet's behavior 

What is love madness?

200

The famous advice Hamlet gives Ophelia 

What is "Get thee to a nunnery"?

300

The reason why men performed as both women and men in Shakespeare's plays 

What is women could not become actors?

300

Describe Polonius's favorite activity towards other characters

What is spying on them?

300

The outcome of the fight between King Fortinbras and King Hamlet 

What is King Hamlet won and attempted to murder King Fortinbras?

300

Rosencratz and Guildenstern agree to do this for the King and Queen

What is spy on Hamlet and find the explanation for his behavior?

300

The biblical story King Claudius' references in his prayer

What is the story of Cain and Abel?
400

The three genres of Shakespeare's plays

What is comedies, tragedies and histories?

400

The name of Hamlet's friends from Wittenburg

Rosencratz and Guildenstern

400

How the ghost wants Hamlet to treat Claudius and Gertrude 

What is murder Claudius and leave Gertrude be?

400

The King of Norway's response to King Claudius's request

What is redirect the troops to Poland and ask to use Denmark as a passageway?

400

The name of the character Hamlet stabs from behind a curtain

Who is Polonius?
500
The name of the illness that wiped out much of England's population

What is the Black or Bubonic Plague?

500

The character Hamlet kills first 

Who is Polonius?

500

The swear made by Horatio and Marcellus to Hamlet

What is that they will not tell anyone about the ghost?

500

The title of the play Hamlet asked the traveling players to perform

What is The Murder of Gonzaga or The Mousetrap?
500
The two suspected reasons Queen Gertrude cannot see the ghost

What is to emphasize Hamlet's madness or portray her innocence?