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Quotations Flashcards

1
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Which quotation does the play begin with?

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‘Who is there’

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2
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‘This bodes some strange

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Eruption to our state’

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3
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‘I shall obey my lord’- who said it?

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Ophelia

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4
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‘It’s in my memory locked’- who said it?

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Laertes

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5
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‘Some time sister

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now our queen’ - Claudius

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6
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‘Antic

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disposition’

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7
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What does Polonius say he will deliver

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‘A few brief precepts’

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8
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‘To those thorns that in her bosom

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Lodge to prick and sting her’

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9
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‘O, villain, villain smiling

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Damned villain’

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10
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What does polonius tell Laertes to do at school

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‘To thine self be true’

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11
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‘With mirth in funeral

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And dirge in marriage’

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12
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(Hamlets aside) ‘Little more than kin and

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Less than kind’

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13
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‘Get thee

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To a nunnery’

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14
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‘That incestuous adulterate beast

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With witchcraft of his wits’

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15
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‘Oh horrible, horrible

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Most horrible!’

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16
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‘That one may smile, and smile

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And be a villain’

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17
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‘Your bait of falsehood

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Takes this carp of truth’

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18
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What was shocking, to Ophelia, about Hamlets appearance in 2.1?

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‘Doublet all unbraced’
‘Stockings fouled’
‘Knees knocking each other’

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19
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‘I doubt it is no other but the main

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His fathers death and our o’erhasty marriage’

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20
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‘Excellent, well

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are you the fish monger’

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21
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‘Uncle- father and aunt

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-mother are deceived’

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22
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‘For look you how cheerfully my mother looks

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and my father died with’s two hours’

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23
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‘O, what a rouge

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And peasant slave I am’

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24
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‘God hath given you one face

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And you make yourself another’

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25
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‘To die, to sleep

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To sleep, perchance to dream’

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26
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‘The lady protests too

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Much me think’

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27
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I must be cruel to only be kind

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Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind’

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28
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‘How all occasions inform against me

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and spur my dull revenge’

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29
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‘If it be now, ‘tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now,

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Yet it will come: the readiness is all’

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30
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‘The rest

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Is silence’

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31
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‘Goodnight sweet prince, and flights

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Of angels sing thee to thy rest’

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32
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“Oh that is too, too solid flesh

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Would melt’

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33
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‘Something is rotten in

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The state of denmark’

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34
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‘Though this be madness,

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Yet there is method in’t’

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35
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‘There is neither good or bad

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But thinking makes it so’

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36
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‘Now I’ll

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Do’t’

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37
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‘Now might I

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Do it’

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38
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‘Grossly full

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Of bread’

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39
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What is fortinbras willing to go to war over?

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‘An egg shell’

‘Small patch of land’

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40
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Laertes ‘cut

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His throat in t’church’

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41
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‘Let

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It be’

42
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‘My thoughts be bloody

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Or be nothing worth’

43
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‘Alas poor

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Yorick!’

44
Q

‘Oh he is

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Mad Laertes’

45
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C.S Lewis humanity

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‘Hamlet depicts lasting mystery of our human condition’

46
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Madness AC Bradley

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‘Melancholia, tragedy of thought’

47
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Over thinking Schlegel and Coleridge

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‘Excessive reflectiveness’

48
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Morality Leonard Tennenhouse

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‘Hamlet attempts to locate and purge a corrupt element within the aristocratic body’mmeans

49
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Gertrude- ‘these words like

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Daggers in my ear’

50
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Hamlet ‘that one may smile and

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Smile and be a villain’

51
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‘Some time sister now our queen’-who said it

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Claudius

52
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Laertes- ‘I’ll be avenged most throughly

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For my father’

53
Q

Hamlet ‘I know a hawk

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From a handsaw’

54
Q

‘Go hath given you a face and you make yourselves another’- who said it to who?

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Hamlet to Ophelia

55
Q

‘Forgive me my foul murder’-who said it?

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Claudius

56
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‘Your bait of falsehood

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Takes the carp of truth’ Polonius

57
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‘Denmark’s a prison’-who said it?

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Hamlet

58
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‘To those thorns that in her bosom lodge

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To prick and sting her’ ghost

59
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Marcellus ‘this bodes some strange

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Eruption to the state’

60
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‘Revenge his foul and unnatural murder’- who said it

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Ghost

61
Q

‘With mirth in funeral

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And dirge in marriage’ Claudius

62
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‘For who would bare the

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Whips and scorns of time’ Hamlet

63
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‘We beseech you to remain’-who said it?

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Claudius

64
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‘ ‘tis unmanly grief’ -who said it?

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Claudius

65
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‘My thought ps be bloody

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Or nothing else’ Hamlet

66
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‘I shall obey my lord’-who said it?

A

Ophelia

67
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‘Oh horrible horrible most horrible’-who said it?

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Ghost

68
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‘Hyperion to a satyr’-who said it

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Hamlet

69
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‘I am too much in

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The sun’ Hamlet

70
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‘This above all

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To thine own self be true ‘

71
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‘We go to gain a little patch

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Of ground’ captain

72
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‘It was not like madness

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There is something in his soul’

73
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‘Thus bad begins

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And worse remains behind’ Hamlet

74
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‘Now I’ll do’t’-who said it

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Hamlet

75
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‘My father grossly full of bread’-who said it?

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Hamlet

76
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I’ll lose my

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Daughter to him’ Polonius

77
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‘Whereon do you look?’-who said it?

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Gertrude

78
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‘I will speak daggers

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To her but use none’ Hamlet

79
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‘Heavens face

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Doth glow’ Hamlet

80
Q

‘Mirror up to nature’- by who to who?

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Hamlet to the actors

81
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‘Speak the speech I pray you

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As I pronounce it to you’ hamlet to the players

82
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‘With this special observance-that you

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O’erstep not the modesty of nature’ hamlet to players

83
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‘Nature’ symbol

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Old hamlet and the orchard -no corruption

84
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Two men there is not

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Living whom he more adheres

85
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Supply and profit of

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Our hope

86
Q

Damned

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Villain

87
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I’ll wipe away all

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Trivial fond records

88
Q

I’ll loose

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My daughter to him

89
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Denmark’s a

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Prison

90
Q

It must be se offendendo-why is this funny and incorrect

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Uses incorrect Latin - means to say self defence however, could be interpreted as suicide which is also an offence

91
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Has this fellow no feeling

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Of his business?

92
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That skull had a

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Tongue in it

93
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The hand of little employment

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Hath the daintier sense

94
Q

Clown: hamlet was born, he that is mad was sent to England. Why is this ironic

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Dramatically ironic because he is speaking to hamlet which makes him seem mad

95
Q

Alas

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Poor Yorick!

96
Q

Borne his back a thousand times and

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Now how adorned in my imagination he is

97
Q

Hamlet the

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Dane

98
Q

Oh he is

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Mad Laertes

99
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Dost thou come here to whine, to

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Out face me with leaping in her grave

100
Q

Bride

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Bed

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