| “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”- Who is the speaker? | Hamlet |
| “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”- Speaking to? | Horatio |
| “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”- What is the nature/meaning of this? | He is being sarcastic; Horatio comes and tells him he’s seen the ghost and pays respects to his father; the quote shows how close they are. |
| “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”- Speaker? | Polonius |
| “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”- Speaking to? | Laertes |
| “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”- What is the nature or purpose of this conversation? | Polonius insists on advising his son, Laertes on how to be successful when going to France. |
| “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let’s go together.”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let’s go together.”- What do you think the speaker means when he/she says:The time is out of joint. | Something is wrong and it is effecting everything around it. |
| “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let’s go together.”- What do you think the speaker means when he/she says:Nay, come, let’s go together. | As the last statement made to Horatio and the guard, Hamlet is suggesting, ‘you don’t need to do that, I’ve shared too many deep things with you; we have a special bond that allows us to tell each other secrets.’ |
| “Well said, old mole. Canst work I’th’ earth so fast?- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “Well said, old mole. Canst work I’th’ earth so fast?- “old mole” refers to? | The ghost |
| “Well said, old mole. Canst work I’th’ earth so fast?- What has the “old mole” just said? | ‘swear that you won’t reveal what is told to you.’ |
| “He took me by the wrist and held me hard.Then goes he to the length of all his arm,And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,He falls to such perusal of my faceAs he would draw it.”- Speaker? | Ophelia |
| “He took me by the wrist and held me hard.Then goes he to the length of all his arm,And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,He falls to such perusal of my faceAs he would draw it.”- Speaking to? | Polonius |
| “He took me by the wrist and held me hard.Then goes he to the length of all his arm,And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,He falls to such perusal of my faceAs he would draw it.”- Who is “He” referring to in the first line? | Hamlet |
| “Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.”- Who is the speaker? | Polonius |
| “Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.”- Speaking to? | Claudius and Gertrude |
| “Therefore, since brevity is the soul of witAnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.”- What is the main message that the speaker eventually communicates to the person(s) he is talking to? | Hamlet has just gone mad, and what’s been said contradicts everything he just said to his son, Laertes. |
| “With an entreaty, herein further shown,That it might please you to give quiet passThrough your dominions for this enterprise,On such regards of safety and allowanceAs therein are set down.”Who is the speaker? | Voltemand |
| “With an entreaty, herein further shown,That it might please you to give quiet passThrough your dominions for this enterprise,On such regards of safety and allowanceAs therein are set down.”- Speaking to? | Claudius |
| “With an entreaty, herein further shown,That it might please you to give quiet passThrough your dominions for this enterprise,On such regards of safety and allowanceAs therein are set down.”- Briefly paraphrase your interpretation of these lines: “With an entreaty herein further shown, that it might please you to give quiet pass through your dominions for his enterprise in such regards of safety and allowance as therein are set down.” | ‘I will not threaten you, but in the future—when I go to war with Poland—I may need to pass through and cross Denmark. |
| “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. … I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. Adieu.”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. … I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. Adieu.”- Speaking to? | Ophelia |
| “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. … I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. Adieu.”- Where are they? | In their bedroom (sleeping together for the first time) |
| “At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.Be you and I behind an arras then,Mark the encounter. If he love her notAnd be not from his reason fall’n thereon,Let me be no assistant for a stateBut keep a farm and carters.”- Speaker? | Polonius |
| “At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.Be you and I behind an arras then,Mark the encounter. If he love her notAnd be not from his reason fall’n thereon,Let me be no assistant for a stateBut keep a farm and carters.”- Speaking to? | Claudius and Gertrude |
| “At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.Be you and I behind an arras then,Mark the encounter. If he love her notAnd be not from his reason fall’n thereon,Let me be no assistant for a stateBut keep a farm and carters.”- What does the speaker mean by this statement? | I’d like you to hide behind a curtain observe Hamlet’s actions alone |
| “You are a fishmonger.”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “You are a fishmonger.”- Speaking to? | Polonius |
| “You are a fishmonger.”- What does the speaker mean? | You are a seller of fish |
| “Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”- Speaking to? | Rosencrantz |
| “Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”- What is the speaker referring to when he/she says: “To me, it is a prison.”? | He is referring to the castle in Denmark |
| “But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| “But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?”- Speaking to? | Rosencrantz |
| “But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?”- Why does the speaker ask the person(s) he is talking to “What make you at Elsinore?” (The speaker previously asked them the question: “What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither?) | He is testing them because he is very suspicious of them |
| One speech in it I chiefly loved, ’twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido, and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line…”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| One speech in it I chiefly loved, ’twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido, and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line…”- Speaking to? | Player King (Head of the Acting co.) |
| One speech in it I chiefly loved, ’twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido, and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line…”- What does the speaker want this person to do? | He wants him to recite a line from a play he likes |
| Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to—’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to—’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub”- What do you think the speaker means by the following words?”Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And, by opposing, end them?” | When is “enough, enough?”-or-(From the “…to be or not to be…” speech: A brief speech on how we encounter trials in life, and questioning how we should act in their midst; Hamlet suggests through these statements that in some cases, these trials will simply pass, but in others, they will not.) |
| Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to—’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub”- What does the speaker mean by: “—ay, there’s the rub”? | “…That’s the catch!”-or-Hamlet implies that it would be easy to let the trials pass, and simply go to sleep and ignore it all or die. But if death leads to hell, then would doing this be worth it? |
| Who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscovered country from whose bournNo traveler returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?”- Speaker | Hamlet |
| Who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscovered country from whose bournNo traveler returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?”- Paraphrase this quote | Who would put up with all of this nonsense if we could end it by simply dying? |
| “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak? ‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.”- Who is the speaker?Hamlet | Hamlet |
| “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak? ‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.”- Who is the speaker talking to? | Guildenstern and Rosencrantz |
| “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak? ‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.”- What do you think the speaker means by these words? | He thinks they’ve been collaborating with Claudius to spy on him |
| “Give me some light. Away!”- Speaker? | Claudius |
| “Give me some light. Away!”- What does the speaker mean by this? | Stop the play! |
| “Give me some light. Away!”- What causes the speaker to make this statement? | When he sees the actor pour poison in the other actor’s ear, Claudius is reminded about how he killed his own brother. |
| A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.”- Speaker? | Hamlet |
| A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.”- What “bloody deed” is he referring to? | Claudius killing his (Hamlet’s) father. |
| A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.”- Who is the speaker referring to when they say: “As kill a king and marry with his brother”? | Claudius |
| What does the play-within-a-play reveal? (The mousetrap play) | That Claudius is, in fact, the murderer. |
| Hamlet almost decides to kill king Claudius then he sees Claudius kneeling and praying. Why does hamlet decide not to kill Claudius at this moment? | He almost decides to kill him, but decides not to after remembering that if he kills a man in prayer his soul will go to heaven. |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”- Speaker? | Claudius |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”- What does the speaker mean by these words | In confessing the murder of his brother in prayer, he stresses that his words have little meaning without his thoughts to accompany them. |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”- Where is the speaker? | In the chapel/confessional booth |
| Briefly discuss the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet. | They add comic relief throughout the play, and their deaths are slightly philosophical. |
Hamlet 9
July 6, 2019