| The ghost revealing himself to hamlet | I am my father’s spirit | 
| Ghost asks hamlet to seek revenge and that he was murdered | Revenge his foul and most unatural murder | 
| Hamlet asks the ghost to quickly tell him why he must seek revenge | Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge | 
| King hamlets ghost reveals his murder | The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown | 
| The ghost was murdered by his brother hamlet | Thus was I, sleeping by a brothers hand | 
| The ghost asks hamlet to spare his mother | Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven | 
| Hamlet condemns his mother and uncle | O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villian | 
| Hamlet condemns his uncle | That one may smile, and smile, and be a villlain; at least im sure it must be so in denmark | 
| Hamlet speaks to horatio about the strange experience he has just had | There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy | 
| To fain madness | To put antic dispostion | 
| Hamlet laments his destiny to avenge his father | The time is out of joint: o cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right | 
Hamlet quotes Act 1 Scene 5
 September 7, 2019