Hamlet and Godot

Question 1

Ha: “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this _”

Answer 1

World

Question 2

In which act and scene is the first changing of the guard, where the guards first come into contact with the Ghost?

Answer 2

Act 1 Scene 1

Question 3

In what act and scene is Hamlet’s first soliloquy?

Answer 3

Act 1 Scene 2

Question 4

Ha: “That the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst _”

Answer 4

Self-slaughter

Question 5

The soliloquy fosters an unparalleled _ between Hamlet and the audience

Answer 5

Intimacy

Question 6

In what act and scene does Claudius give his machiavellian speech on the marriage and funeral?

Answer 6

Act 1 Scene 2

Question 7

Ha: “O that this too too _ flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”

Answer 7

Soid/Sullied

Question 8

The root of soliloquy, ‘sol’, is a word meaning one or _

Answer 8

Alone

Question 9

What act and scene are we first introduced to Hamlet?

Answer 9

Act 1 Scene 2

Question 10

“_ generally symbolize people’s regard for each other” - Costello

Answer 10

Flowers

Question 11

“In her madness _ suddenly comes alive as a character and forces us to reckon with her innuendoes” - Charney

Answer 11

Ophelia

Question 12

”[. . .] her madness reveals the silent _ who is suffering acutely from her passive acceptance of things” - Charney

Answer 12

Woman

Question 13

Who said Hamlet’s relationship with his mother had elements of a dimly defined “erotic quality”

Answer 13

Ernest Jones

Question 14

“Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing, rather than _” - Emma Smith

Answer 14

Doing

Question 15

Mild mental illness however still in touch with reality

Answer 15

Neurosis

Question 16

“Hamlet is thought-sick not brainsick - he is neurotic not _” - Harry Levin

Answer 16

Psychotic

Question 17

“We can image Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without _” - Lee Edwards

Answer 17

Hamlet

Question 18

Word meaning greater than the sum of its parts

Answer 18

Synergy

Question 19

“Perhaps only a _ Ophelia of multiple perspectives, more than the sum of all her parts” - Showalter

Answer 19

Cubist

Question 20

“The doubling in Hamlet can obviously be a means of slowing down the _” - Kermode

Answer 20

Action

Question 21

“No poet has begun to master dramatic verse until he can write lines which, like these in Hamlet, are _” - T.S. Eliot

Answer 21

Transparent

Question 22

Who calls Hamlet a poem unlimited?

Answer 22

Harold Bloom

Question 23

“The ghost appears to four separate witnesses: no one can think it a psychological _” - Mullan

Answer 23

Projection

Question 24

“Revenge is a kind of _ which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out” - Bacon

Answer 24

Wild Justice

Question 25

"Taking revenge could never settle the matter for Hamlet, because the root cause of his quandary lies deeper than his _ " - Ryan

Answer 25

Uncle's Villany

Question 26

"The play is obliquely concerned with the question of who would success the unmarried _" - Emma Smith

Answer 26

Queen Elizabeth

Question 27

"Shakespeare forces Hamlet to wrestle with a series of ethical problems that he must resolve before he can _" - Shapiro

Answer 27

Act

Question 28

"With Hamlet, a play poised midway between areligious past and a _ future" - Shapiro

Answer 28

Secular

Question 29

"Elizabethan drama had its roots in a morality tradition in which the struggle between the forces of good and evil had been _"

Answer 29

Externalised

Question 30

"These texts challenge the traditional _ between play and spectator or reader because they deny willing suspension of disbelief"

Answer 30

Contract

Question 31

"Beckett populates his _ with many characters, including a whole class of little boys and girls"

Answer 31

Offstage

Question 32

"Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume: one of the thieves was _"

Answer 32

Damned

Question 33

"To find a form that accommodates the _, that is the task of the artist" - Beckett

Answer 33

mess

Question 34

"The first act of _ consists in evading what one cannot evade, in evading what one is" - Martin Esslin

Answer 34

Bad faith

Question 35

"I seek, like a caged beast born of _ born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead..." - Beckett, The Unnamable

Answer 35

Cage beasts

Question 36

"The Theatre of the Absurd presents irrationality of the human condition through the abandonment of _" - Martin Esslin

Answer 36

Rational devices

Question 37

"Absurd is that which is devoid of _" - Ionesco

Answer 37

Purpose

Question 38

One who lives life to the full, hates death and is condemned to a meaningless task

Answer 38

Absurd Hero

Question 39

The memory of the good pasts

Answer 39

Memoria Praeteritorum Bonorum

Question 40

"Hamlet needs to _, but there is nobody in whom he can confide" - Shapiro

Answer 40

Talk

Question 41

"There was more than enough _ to go around in England in the final years of Elizabeth's reign" - James Shapiro

Answer 41

Uncertainty

Question 42

"In any case, one is always caught in a period in which _ has no purpose and waiting is the only goal" - Jeffrey Bigham

Answer 42

Time

Question 43

Relating to dreams or dreaming

Answer 43

Oneiric

Question 44

"The subject of the play is not Godot, but _" - Martin Esslin

Answer 44

Waiting

Question 45

The etymology of Fortinbras is fortis meaning _ and bras meaning arm

Answer 45

Strong

Question 46

In the Sean Mathias broadway production and Michael Lindsay-Hogg adaptation of WFG _ is given a white beard

Answer 46

Estragon

Question 47

Electra's father was murdered by her mother and her lover. Like _, Electra seeks to avenge her father's death

Answer 47

Hamlet

Question 48

"The end is the beginning and yet you _" - Beckett, Endgame

Answer 48

Go on

Question 49

"Beckett's great innovation in Godot is to question the _ previous playwrights felt obliged to respect" - Michael Worton

Answer 49

Formal Structure

Question 50

"The very act of waiting becomes Beckett's exposition of the _ people construct in order to pass the hours" - Harold Bloom

Answer 50

Games and rituals

Question 51

A rule (moral) intended to regulate behaviour or thought

Answer 51

Precept

Question 52

"The source of the protagonists' _ is their inability to choose to separate or to choose not to wait" - Athanasius Ayuk

Answer 52

Tragedy

Question 53

"The _ [tries] to achieve a unity between its basic assumptions and the form in which these are expressed" - Martin Esslin

Answer 53

Theatre of the absurd

Question 54

"The boy is just nature, leading us to want and think we are on the verge of knowing _" - Bob Corbett

Answer 54

Truth absolute

Question 55

"Beckett's great innovation in Godot is to offer a _ or representation of reality" - Michael Worton

Answer 55

Mimesis

Question 56

In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to protect Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?

Answer 56

Gregory Doran

Question 57

In which Hamlet adaptation are Ophelia's actions in Act 4 Scene 5 (madness) always performed spontaneously and off-the-cuff?

Answer 57

Gregory Doran

Question 58

Who argues that the boy cannot be a messenger from Godot as there is no Godot to bring messages from?

Answer 58

Bob Corbett

Question 59

What was the name of King Agamemnon's daughter who largely went through the same circumstances as Hamlet?

Answer 59

Electra

Question 60

The etymology of Gertrude is ger meaning _ and trut meaning dear

Answer 60

Spear

Question 61

"I am interested in the _ of ideas, even if i do not believe in them" - Beckett

Answer 61

Shape

Question 62

What is the Proto-Germanic etymology of the word dream?

Answer 62

Deception/Illusion

Question 63

The space created by something not being there

Answer 63

Negative Space

Question 64

In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to punish Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?

Answer 64

Kenneth Branagh

Question 65

V: "Well? Shall we go?" E: "Yes, let's go. (They do not _)"

Answer 65

Move

Question 66

E: "And if he comes?" V: "We'll be _"

Answer 66

Saved

Question 67

E: "If we parted? That might be better for us" V: "We'll hang ourselves tomorrow. Unless _ comes"

Answer 67

Godot

Question 68

E: "I can't go on like this" V: "That's what you _"

Answer 68

Think

Question 69

"(E loosens the cord that holds up his trousers which, much too big for him, _)"

Answer 69

Fall about his ankles

Question 70

E: "Why don't we _ ourselves"

Answer 70

Hang

Question 71

E: "If we dropped him?" V: "He'd _. Everything's dead but the tree"

Answer 71

Punish Us

Question 72

E: "Oh yes, let's go far away from here" "We can't" "Why not?" "We have to come back _" "What for?" "To wait for Godot"

Answer 72

Tomorrow

Question 73

"(V makes a sudden spring forward, the Boy avoids him and exit _) "

Answer 73

Running

Question 74

E: "I'm _" V: "So am I"

Answer 74

Going

Question 75

V: "(Softly) Has he a beard, Mr Godot?" B: "I think it's _, sir"

Answer 75

White

Question 76

V: "What does he do Mr Godot?" B: "He does _, sir"

Answer 76

Nothing

Question 77

V: "At me too someone is looking of me too someone is saying, he is sleeping, he knows nothing, _. I can't go on!"

Answer 77

Let him sleep on

Question 78

V: "He'll _. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot"

Answer 78

Know nothing

Question 79

V: "Was I sleeping, while the others _? Am I sleeping now?"

Answer 79

Suffered

Question 80

E: "Are you sure it wasn't him" V: "Not at all! (_) Not at all! (Still _) Not at all!"

Answer 80

Less sure

Question 81

V: "It seemed to me he saw us" E: "You _ it. Let's go. We can't. Ah!"

Answer 81

Dreamt

Question 82

E: "I was dreaming that -" V: "(Violently) Don't _!"

Answer 82

Tell me

Question 83

E: "Why will you never let me sleep?" V: "I felt _" E: "I was dreaming I was happy" V: "That passed the time"

Answer 83

Lonely

Question 84

P: "They give birth astride of a _, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more"

Answer 84

Grave

Question 85

P: "One day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we were born, one day we shall _"

Answer 85

Die

Question 86

P: "Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed _"

Answer 86

Time

Question 87

P: "We wait till we can _. Then we go on. On!"

Answer 87

Get up

Question 88

V: What is there in the bag?" P: "_"

Answer 88

Sand

Question 89

P: "But tomorrow I won't _ having met anyone today"

Answer 89

Remember

Question 90

"(With sudden fury E starts _ L, hurling abuse at him as he does so. But he hurts his foot and moves away limping and groaning)"

Answer 90

Kicking

Question 91

E: "He seems to be sleeping. Perhaps he's _"

Answer 91

Dead

Question 92

V: "(Looking around) It's indescribable. It's like nothing. There's nothing. There's a _"

Answer 92

Tree

Question 93

P: "The blind have no notion of _"

Answer 93

Time

Question 94

P: "I woke up one fine day as blind as _. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep"

Answer 94

Fortune

Question 95

V: "Can't you see he's thinking of the days when he was _? Memoria praeteritorum bonorum"

Answer 95

Happy

Question 96

V: "(Inspecting the _) Seven o'clock... eight o'clock"

Answer 96

Sky

Question 97

V: "Damn it, can't you see the man is _!" E: "Damn it, so he is. So he says"

Answer 97

Blind

Question 98

P: "I am blind" E: "Perhaps he can see into the _"

Answer 98

Future

Question 99

"(They help Pozzo to his feet, let him go. He _)"

Answer 99

Falls

Question 100

E: "(They get up) Child's play" V: "Simple question of _"

Answer 100

Will-power