DOUBLE DUTY
When Mercutio, stabbed by Tybalt when Romeo gets in the way of their play fighting, is dying, he tells his companions that he may be a joker, but ‘ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a ________ man.’
grave
After he has killed Polonius and stowed his body away the king asks him where Polonius is. Hamlet tells him he is at supper – ‘not where he eats, but where he ______’
is eaten
Wandering in a graveyard, Hamlet asks a gravedigger whose grave it is he’s digging. The gravedigger who is standing in the grave says: ‘Mine, Sir.’ Hamlet picks up the banter and, laughingly accusing the man of not telling him the truth, says, ‘I think it be thine indeed, for thou ______ in it.’
liest
Claudius, now married to Hamlet’s mother, very soon after the death of Hamlet’s father, is now doubly related to him: he is both uncle and stepfather, but is neither relative nor the kind of person that Hamlet is. Hamlet states it like this: ‘A little more than________, and less than kind.’
kin
Hamlet is annoyed by Claudius’ constant referral to him as his son, so when Claudius asks him ‘how is it that the clouds still hang over you?’ meaning why is he still in mourning for his father, Hamlet responds: ‘Not so, my lord, I am too much in________.’
the sun