harbinger | a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another |
unfold yourself | disclose your identity |
soft | an exclamation requesting silence |
happily | perhaps or fortunately |
lose your voice | waste your words |
cousin | kinsman |
obsequious | dutiful |
sullied | stained, defiled |
goodly | admirable, excellent |
season your admiration | control your astonishment |
marry | a mild oath derived from “By the Virgin Mary” |
shrewdly | keenly |
pith and marrow | essence |
mark me | pay attention to me |
bound | ready or obligated |
orchard | palace garden |
hebona | a poison |
matin | morning |
truepenny | honest fellow |
hic et ubique | here and everywhere |
what means | what is there supply of money |
wanton | rebellious |
closet | private room |
havior | perhaps, youthful manner or behavior |
vouchsafe your rest | agree to stay |
sift | examine closely |
arras | a hanging screen of rich tapestry fabric |
pregnant | full of meaning |
Roscius | a Roman actor in the first century BCE |
Seneca | a Roman philosopher and writer of tragedies |
Plautus | a Roman writer of comedies |
Mars | the Roman god of war |
Jephthah | a man who had to sacrifice his daughter in a biblical story |
John-a-dreams | a proverbial name for an absent-minded dreamer |
rub | obstacle |
shuffled off this mortal coil | untagled ourselves from the flesh, detached from human affairs |
makes calamity of such long life | put up with unhappiness for a long time |
undiscovered | unexplored |
puzzles | paralyzes |
soft you now | an exclamation to interrupt speech |
affections | emontions, mental state |
doubt | fear |
dumb show | a scene without words |
argument | plot |
chorus | a character who tells the audience what they are about to see |
pardon | permission to depart |
glass | looking glass, mirror |
remains behind | is yet to come |
softly | slowly |
Gis | Jesus |
spies | individual soldiers sent by the army to scout out the territory |
muddied | stirred up, confused |
in hugger-mugger | without proper ceremony, secretly and hastily |
cuckhold | betrayed husband |
rue | symbol of sorrow or reptance |
ostentation | ceremony |
character | handwriting |
mortal | deadly |
give me leave | let me go on |
quiddities | hair splitting defenitions |
quillities | quibbles |
strewments | flowers strewn on a grave |
sweets to the sweet | sweet flowers to the sweet maiden |
wand’ring stars | planets |
anon | a short time |
shriving time | time for confession |
complexion | temprament |
play | fence |
deliver | tell |
passage | passig, death |
pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or fact that sound alike |
metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable: |
couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme |
soliloquy | an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play |
allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
aside | A term used in drama and theater, happens when a character’s dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage, useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot. |
Hamlet Vocabulary and Literature Definition
September 2, 2019