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Which quotation does the play begin with?

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‘Who is there’

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‘This bodes some strange

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Eruption to our state’

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‘I shall obey my lord’- who said it?

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Ophelia

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

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Laertes

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‘Some time sister

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now our queen’ - Claudius

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‘Antic

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disposition’

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What does Polonius say he will deliver

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‘A few brief precepts’

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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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‘O, villain, villain smiling

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Damned villain’

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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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‘With mirth in funeral

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And dirge in marriage’

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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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‘That incestuous adulterate beast

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With witchcraft of his wits’

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‘Oh horrible, horrible

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Most horrible!’

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‘That one may smile, and smile

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And be a villain’

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‘Your bait of falsehood

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Takes this carp of truth’

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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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‘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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‘Excellent, well

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are you the fish monger’

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‘Uncle- father and aunt

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-mother are deceived’

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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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‘O, what a rouge

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And peasant slave I am’

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‘God hath given you one face

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And you make yourself another’

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‘To die, to sleep
To sleep, perchance to dream’
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‘The lady protests too
Much me think’
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I must be cruel to only be kind
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind’
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‘How all occasions inform against me
and spur my dull revenge’
29
‘If it be now, ‘tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now,
Yet it will come: the readiness is all’
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‘The rest
Is silence’
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‘Goodnight sweet prince, and flights
Of angels sing thee to thy rest’
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“Oh that is too, too solid flesh
Would melt’
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‘Something is rotten in
The state of denmark’
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‘Though this be madness,
Yet there is method in’t’
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‘There is neither good or bad
But thinking makes it so’
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‘Now I’ll
Do’t’
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‘Now might I
Do it’
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‘Grossly full
Of bread’
39
What is fortinbras willing to go to war over?
‘An egg shell’ | ‘Small patch of land’
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Laertes ‘cut
His throat in t’church’
41
‘Let
It be’
42
‘My thoughts be bloody
Or be nothing worth’
43
‘Alas poor
Yorick!’
44
‘Oh he is
Mad Laertes’
45
C.S Lewis humanity
‘Hamlet depicts lasting mystery of our human condition’
46
Madness AC Bradley
‘Melancholia, tragedy of thought’
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Over thinking Schlegel and Coleridge
‘Excessive reflectiveness’
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Morality Leonard Tennenhouse
‘Hamlet attempts to locate and purge a corrupt element within the aristocratic body’mmeans
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Gertrude- ‘these words like
Daggers in my ear’
50
Hamlet ‘that one may smile and
Smile and be a villain’
51
‘Some time sister now our queen’-who said it
Claudius
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Laertes- ‘I’ll be avenged most throughly
For my father’
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Hamlet ‘I know a hawk
From a handsaw’
54
‘Go hath given you a face and you make yourselves another’- who said it to who?
Hamlet to Ophelia
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‘Forgive me my foul murder’-who said it?
Claudius
56
‘Your bait of falsehood
Takes the carp of truth’ Polonius
57
‘Denmark’s a prison’-who said it?
Hamlet
58
‘To those thorns that in her bosom lodge
To prick and sting her’ ghost
59
Marcellus ‘this bodes some strange
Eruption to the state’
60
‘Revenge his foul and unnatural murder’- who said it
Ghost
61
‘With mirth in funeral
And dirge in marriage’ Claudius
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‘For who would bare the
Whips and scorns of time’ Hamlet
63
‘We beseech you to remain’-who said it?
Claudius
64
‘ ‘tis unmanly grief’ -who said it?
Claudius
65
‘My thought ps be bloody
Or nothing else’ Hamlet
66
‘I shall obey my lord’-who said it?
Ophelia
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‘Oh horrible horrible most horrible’-who said it?
Ghost
68
‘Hyperion to a satyr’-who said it
Hamlet
69
‘I am too much in
The sun’ Hamlet
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‘This above all
To thine own self be true ‘
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‘We go to gain a little patch
Of ground’ captain
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‘It was not like madness
There is something in his soul’
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‘Thus bad begins
And worse remains behind’ Hamlet
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‘Now I’ll do’t’-who said it
Hamlet
75
‘My father grossly full of bread’-who said it?
Hamlet
76
I’ll lose my
Daughter to him’ Polonius
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‘Whereon do you look?’-who said it?
Gertrude
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‘I will speak daggers
To her but use none’ Hamlet
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‘Heavens face
Doth glow’ Hamlet
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‘Mirror up to nature’- by who to who?
Hamlet to the actors
81
‘Speak the speech I pray you
As I pronounce it to you’ hamlet to the players
82
‘With this special observance-that you
O’erstep not the modesty of nature’ hamlet to players
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‘Nature’ symbol
Old hamlet and the orchard -no corruption
84
Two men there is not
Living whom he more adheres
85
Supply and profit of
Our hope
86
Damned
Villain
87
I’ll wipe away all
Trivial fond records
88
I’ll loose
My daughter to him
89
Denmark’s a
Prison
90
It must be se offendendo-why is this funny and incorrect
Uses incorrect Latin - means to say self defence however, could be interpreted as suicide which is also an offence
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Has this fellow no feeling
Of his business?
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That skull had a
Tongue in it
93
The hand of little employment
Hath the daintier sense
94
Clown: hamlet was born, he that is mad was sent to England. Why is this ironic
Dramatically ironic because he is speaking to hamlet which makes him seem mad
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Alas
Poor Yorick!
96
Borne his back a thousand times and
Now how adorned in my imagination he is
97
Hamlet the
Dane
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Oh he is
Mad Laertes
99
Dost thou come here to whine, to
Out face me with leaping in her grave
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Bride
Bed

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