1.5, Horatio: These are but | These are but wild and whirling words, my lord |
1.5, Hamlet: as perchance hereafter | as perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on |
2.1, Ophelia: describes Hamlet as looking as if he had been ‘loosed out of… | loosed out of hell/ to speak of horrors |
2.2, Hamlet: for if the sun… | for if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,/ being a good kissing carrion – have you a daughter? |
3.1, Claudius: madness in great ones… | madness in great ones must not unwatched go |
1.4, Horatio: he waxes… | he waxes desperate with imagination |
3.1, Ophelia: now see that noble and | now see that noble and sovereign reason/ like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh |
4.1, Gertrude: Hamlet is ‘mad as the sea and wind… | mad as the sea and the wind/ when both contend which is the mightier |
2.2, Hamlet to Polonius: I am but mad north-north west. | I am but mad north-north west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw |
2.2, Hamlet: […] The spirit that I have seen/May be the devil | The spirit that I have seen/ may be the devil, and the devil hath power/ T’assume a pleasing shape |
3.4, Gertrude: Alas, how is’t with you, | Alas, how is’t with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy/ And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? |
4.5, Claudius: poor Ophelia, Divided | poor Ophelia, divided from herself and her fair judegment,/ Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts |
3.1, Ophelia: describes Hamlet as having his | ‘doublet all unbraced’ and his ‘head waving thus up and down’ |
2.2, Polonius: this be madness, | this be madness, yet there is method in’t |
3.1, Claudius suspects Hamlet ‘puts on… | puts on this confusion |
2.2, Hamlet describes himself as a toothless, ‘wrinkled’ old man who has no ‘wit’; he adds that Polonius will be this old ‘ | if, like a crab, you could go backward |
1.2, Hamlet: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt/ | O, that this too too solid flesh would melt/ thaw and resolve itself into a dew!/Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d/His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! |
5.2, Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself | If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away,/ And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes,/ Then Hamlet does it not |
4.5, Gentleman: her speech… | her speech is nothing |
4.5, Ophelia, singing: Young men will do’t, | young men will do’t, if they come to’t;/ By cock, they are to blame. |
4.5, Ophelia, singing: Quoth she, before you tumbled me,/ | Quoth she, before you tumbled me,/ You promised me to wed |
2.2, Hamlet: perhaps,/ Out of my weakness and my melancholy,/ | perhaps,/ out of my weakness and my melancholy,/ as he is very potent with such spirits,/ Abuses me to damn me |
3.4, Hamlet: I essentially am not in madness,/ | I essentially am not in madness,/ but mad in craft |
5.2, Hamlet tricks Osric into first agreeing that | ‘it is indifferent cold’ and then that ‘it is very sultry’ |
1.2, Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio. | thrift, thrift, Horatio. the funeral baked meats/ Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables |
Horatio fears that the Ghost will: deprive | deprive your sovereignty of reason/ And draw you into madness |
Ophelia’s soliloquy on Hamlet’s madness: O, what a noble mind | O, what a noble mind/ is here o’erthrown! |
3.2, Hamlet says he is mad: ‘my wit’s… | My wit’s diseased |
Claudius on how Denmark will not endure Hamlet’s madness: The terms of our estate | the terms of our estate may not endure/ Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow/ Out of his brows |
Ophelia: That unmatched form | That unmatched form and stature of blown youth/ Blasted with ecstasy |
1.2, Hamlet to Claudius: ‘Not so, my lord. | Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun. |
Hamlet quotes: Madness, alienation, melancholy
August 22, 2019