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I Said It!
100
What Claudius did as a reaction to the play within a play.
What is he called for the lights?
100
Hamlet's foil needing no motivation but ambition to spur himself to act.
Who is Fortinbras?
100
What Hamlet means when he breaks out of his wordplay to say to Polonious, "except my life, except my life, except my life."
What is his weariness with life?
100
Laertes "wants not buzzers to infect his ear/With pestilent speeches of his father's death."
What is violence to ears?
100
Said "How smart a lash that speech doth give my consciousness."
Who is Claudius?
200
Hamlet asks his mother to do these 2 things after he kills Polonius.
What is not sleep with Claudius and not reveal that Hamlet is not really mad?
200
"More an antique Roman than a Dane."
Who is Horatio?
200
This is the reason the players perform the slaughter of Priam scene from the Aenid.
What is to show vengeance without contemplation?
200
Painful nature of truth or harm lies can do.
What is make-up?
200
Said "I dare damnation...Let come what comes ony I'll be reveng'd Most thoroughly for my father."
Who is Hamlet?
300
Why Hamlet is shocked by the skulls in the graveyard.
What is they could be anyone?
300
Quick-witted commoner.
Who is Osric?
300
Sweet, obedient daughter
Who is Ophelia?
300
Physical and moral corruption.
What is sickness and decay?
300
Said "He is dead and gone, lady. He is dead and gone."
Who is Ophelia?
400
Why Hamlet thinks he can beat Laertes at the fencing match.
What is he has been practicing?
400
Guard who sees the ghost.
Who is Marcellus?
400
When Hamlet wishes this too, too sullied flesh would would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter" he is referring to this.
What is his wish that he would be able to commit suicide so that he would not have to avenge his father's death?
400
Madness
What is acting?
400
Said "But I am forbid/To tell the secrets of my prison house,/ I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/Would harrow up thy soud, freeze thy young blood,/Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres..."
Who is ghost of King Hamlet?
500
He is Lord Chamberlain and Chief Council to King Claudius.
Who is Polonius?
500
"a 'disease' that must be relieved by 'desperate measures'"
Who is Hamlet?
500
She said "A second time I kill my husband dead/When 2nd husband kisses me in bed."
What is Player Queen?
500
springes to catch woodcocks
What is traps?
500
Said "I am but mad north by northwest; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."
Who is Hamlet?
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