Act I
This battle-ready dead guy likes long midnight walks along the castle walls and asking moody kids to take revenge for him.
Who is King Hamlet's ghost?
Laertes and Polonius both advise Ophelia to take this action.
What is break up with Hamlet?
As he contemplates suicide, Hamlet asks this famous question.
What is "To be or not to be?"
This is where Hamlet suggests Claudius can go (to find Polonius).
Where is hell?
This rich girl is getting a Christian burial even though she committed suicide because she's rich.
Who is Ophelia?
Because he's a scholar and a nobleman, the night watch ask for his help in speaking with the dead.
Who is Horatio?
Dead King Hamlet wants his son to do this.
What is get revenge/kill Claudius?
This is how Claudius reacts to the play Hamlet has performed for him.
What is get angry and storm out?
Claudius is hoping that the king of England will do him this itty bitty favor.
What is kill Hamlet?
This joker carelessly tosses Yorick's skull up out of his grave.
Who is Gravedigger?
When they're not hunting ghosts, taking revenge, or getting into other shenanigans, Hamlet, Laertes, and the other young men spend the year here.
Where is college?
This is what Hamlet makes Horatio swear to do in regards to seeing the ghost.
What is don't tell ANYONE?
This is the justification Hamlet gives for not just killing Claudius when he sees him praying.
What is he doesn't want Claudius to go to heaven/be free of sin?
Hamlet and the Captain discuss Fortinbras's plans to do this for a worthless piece of land in Poland.
What is go to war?
One is a thinker, the other is a doer, but they kill each other in the end.
Who are Hamlet and Laertes?
King Hamlet killed his father, so he's thinking of invading Denmark (and thus, Denmark is preparing for war).
Who is Fortinbras?
This is why Polonius thinks that Hamlet has gone crazy.
What is being in love with Ophelia?
This is the man hiding in Gertrude's bedroom when Hamlet visits. (It doesn't end well for the old guy. Or anyone really.)
Who is Polonius?
As we learn from Claudius, this guy has secretly returned to Denmark (from France) with the intent of avenging his father's murder.
Who is Laertes?
They may or may not be adulterers, they may or may not be committing incest, but they do both die of poison.
Who are Claudius and Gertrude?
This is Ophelia's suggestion to Laertes for how to act when he gets back to college.
What is don't be a hypocrite?
Hamlet is pretty sure he can use this group of people who arrive in Act II to help...make Claudius confess...??? It's unclear.
Who are the players?
This is a monologue expressing a character's inner thoughts while they stand alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
Gertrude tells Claudius and Laertes that this crazy person has drowned herself.
Who is Ophelia?
This young prince claims Denmark for his own at the end of the play.
Who is Fortinbras?