How Are They Related?
They are mother and son.
Who are Gertrude and Hamlet?
This is the country where Shakespeare lived.
What is England?
He is the King of Denmark.
Who is Claudius?
An example of this literary device would be, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
What is foreshadowing?
These are the reasons why Hamlet is sad.
What is his father died mysteriously and his mother married his uncle?
They are brother and sister.
Who are Laertes and Ophelia?
Shakespeare's son who died.
Who is Hamnet?
She is the queen of Denmark and married Hamlet's uncle.
Who is Gertrude?
An aside.
What is a comment the other characters onstage do not hear?
This person is summoned to witness the ghost in Scene 1.
Who is Horatio?
They were brothers.
Who are Old Hamlet and Claudius?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Shakespeare's theater company changed their name to this.
What is The King's Men.
She is Hamlet's girlfriend.
Who is Ophelia?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! The meter in which Shakespeare wrote most of his works.
What is iambic Pentameter?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! The word that goes in this phrase:"_______, thy name is woman?"
What is Frailty?
Hamlet and Horatio.
What is best friends?
Shakespeare did this while the theaters were closed due to the plague.
What is wrote poetry?
He is the prince of Norway.
Who is Fortinbras?
What is a pun?
This is the place where Hamlet attends school.
What is Wittenburg?
The king's advisor.
Who is Polonius?
What is First Folio?
His brother poured poison in his ear.
Who is Old Hamlet?
When Claudius refers to himself as "the throne" or "Denmark".
What is metonymy?
This is what Hamlet asks of Horatio and Marcellus at the end of Act 1.
What is secrecy about the ghost and to go along with Hamlet's crazy act?