| Evidence of Polonius’ buttering up of Reynaldo? (2 quotes) | “You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo.””Do you mark this Reynaldo?” |
| How does player hint at Hamlet’s insecurities? | “So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,/And like a neutral to his will and matter,/Did nothing.” |
| What does Hamlet state on the players? | “Let them be well used, For they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time.” (prose) |
| What are Polonius’ instructions to Reynaldo? (4 quotes) | “But sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips/As are companions noted and most known/To youth and liberty”But breathe his faults so quaintly/That they may seem the taints of liberty.””By indirections find directions out.””Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.” |
| Evidence for Polonius’ potential madness or mental illness? | “And then, sir, does he this, he does – What was I about to say?” |
| What is Polonius’ reaction to Hamlet’s creepy behaviour towards Ophelia? | “This is the very ecstasy of love,/Whose violent property fordoes itself/And leads the will to desperate undertakings.” |
| Polonius’ intentions to discover Hamlet’s madness? | “At such a time, I’ll loose my daughter to him.” |
| Polonius’ reference to Classical playwrights? | “Seneca/Cannot be heavy, nor Plautus too light.” |
| What is Ophelia’s description of Hamlet’s creepy behaviour? (4 quotes) | “No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled/Ungartered and down-gyved to his ankle.””With a look so piteous in purport,/As if had he been loosed out of hell/To speak of horrors.””He took me by the wrist and held me hard.””He seemed to find his way without his eyes.” |
| Evidence of Ophelia’s innocence? | “No, my good lord, but as you did command,/I did repel his letters, and denied/His access to me.” |
| Claudius’ confession of his using of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern? | “The need we have to use you did provoke/Our hasty sending. Something have you heard/Of Hamlet’s transformation.” |
| Claudius’ confusion at Hamlet’s madness? | “What it should be,/More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him/So much from th’understanding of himself,/I cannot dream of.” |
| Gertrude’s flattery of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern? | “Your visitation shall receive such thanks/As fits a king’s remembrance.” |
| Gertrude’s confession of her awareness of Hamlet’s cause for madness? | “I doubt it is no other but the main: /His father’s death and our o’er hasty marriage.” |
| Gertrude’s pitying of Hamlet? | “But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.” |
| Rosencrantz’ flattery of Gertrude and Claudius? | “Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,” |
| Rosencrantz’ discussion of child actors? | “These are now the fashion.” |
| Rosencrantz’ denial of Hamlet’s accusatory tone? | “There was no such stuff in my thoughts.” |
| Rosencrantz’ reference to ‘As You Like It’? | “They say an old man is twice a child.” |
| Hamlet’s comment on men in Denmark? (Telling) | “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” |
| Hamlet’s misogyny when talking about Ophelia? | “Let her not walk i’th’sun. Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter may conceive.” |
| Hamlet’s madness when talking to Polonius? (2 quotes) | “You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.””I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” |
| Hamlet on child actors? | “What are children? Who maintains ’em?”little eyeases.” |
| Hamlet madness when talking to Rosencrantz and Guildernstern? | “I am mad but north-north-west; when the wind is southerly; I know a hawk from a handsaw.” |
| What does Hamlet intend to insert into ‘The Murder of Gonzago’? | “Some dozen or sixteen lines.” |
| What are Hamlet’s two intense speeches? | “O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!””I have of late, though wherefore I know not.” |
Hamlet Act 2
November 26, 2019