Show:
The Supernatural
Incestuous Sheets
Fathers and Sons
Frailty, Thy Name is Woman
Put Your Thinking Cap On

100
Who are Bernardo and Marcellus?
These are the characters to whom the ghost of old Hamlet appear.
100
These people approved of the marriage between Gertrude and Claudius
What is the Danish court?
100
This is where Polonius reluctantly gives his son permission to go.
What is France?
100
These people warn Ophelia not to trust Hamlet's vows of affection.
Who are Laertes and Polonius?
100
This is why it is fitting that Hamlet wanted everyone to swear silence on the sword.
What is because it is a symbol of the cross?
200
Speaking Latin is the way to do this.
What is communicating with a ghost?
200
This was served at the wedding.
What are the cold funeral meats?
200
This person wants Hamlet to "think on him as a father."
Who is Claudius.
200
Polonius insults Ophelia by calling her this
What is "a green girl"
200
This could be why Shakespeare has Polonius speak some of the best advice for living.
What is because Shakespeare knew that even fools speak wisely at times.
300
This person refuses to believe that a ghost has appeared
Who is Horatio?
300
This person is Claudius' "sometimes sister"
Who is Gertrude?
300
This father is compared to Hercules.
Who is Old Hamlet?
300
Ophelia talks back to her brother by cleverly advising him not to do this....
What is "wreck his own rede."
300
This could be why Hamlet is going to pretend to be insane.
What is to give himself time and space to determine his next steps.
400
These are the reasons why Horatio does not want Hamlet to visit the ghost.
What is that he may tempt him over a cliff or endanger his soul?
400
According to Hamlet, his mother shows dexterity in this.
What is "posting to incestuous sheets"
400
This person acts to avenge a loss of his father's.
Who is Fortinbras?
400
This motif appears when the male characters are speaking of the women in connection with sexuality.
What is a rotting garden or decaying vegetation/flowers?
400
This is what makes the murder of Old Hamlet so particularly egregious
What is because it is a brother's murder and because he had no opportunity to confess before death.
500
This is what the ghost yells from under the earth.
What is "swear! swear!!"
500
This is the time period between the death of Old Hamlet and the marriage of Gertrude and Claudius.
What is less than two months?
500
This is the advice Claudius gives to Hamlet about fathers.
What is telling him that "all fathers die"
500
This person is compared to Niobe, who was turned into a statue because she could not stop crying at the death of her children.
Who is Gertrude?
500
This is the Biblical allusion that Old Hamlet's murder should remind us of.
What is the murder of Abel by Cain?