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Commingled BlendedS: Judgment are so well commingled Knavish Unprincipled S: Tis’ a knavish piece of work Contagion Harmful or corrupting S: Contagion of this world Sinews Tendons; Muscles S: be soft as sinews Visage Face or facial expression S: with…

By his comment in Scene 2 that the outer signs of grief are “actions that a man might play,” Hamlet is implying that Claudius and Gertrude pretend sorrow but feel none. In Scene 1, Marcellus’s comment that “Horatio says ’tis…

Some sailors arrive at Elsinore from a pirate ship in Act 4 Scene 6. Who do they deliver a letter to? Claudius The sailors from the ship deliver letters to Elsinore. Who are the letters from? Hamlet In the letter…

Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes? Renaldo Does Polonius actually care about his son? No What is Polonius concerned about when he sends Renaldo to spy on Laertes? His own reputation Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Childhood friends…

Act 1 Scene 1: The ghost This dreaded sight twice seen of us Act 1 Scene 1: Horatio’s rational Tush tush ’twill not appear Act 1 Scene 1: Horatio’s a scholar In the same figure, like the King that’s dead.…

Whhat is Elsinore? Castle Who are the 3 guards? Marcellus, francisco, Bernardo Who says “there is something rotten in Denmark”? Marcellus What does it symbolize to have a ghosy rise from the grave? Something bad was going to happen. What…

apparition (noun) definition: a supernatural appearance of a person or thingsentence: In my dream the ghost like apparition looked familiar. portentous (adj.) definition: ominously significant or indicativesentence: The music in the haunted house was portentous making it even scarier than…

to be or not to be hamlet, soliloquy a touch, a touch, I do confess it laertes to hamlet When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions Claudius to Gertrude sweet to the sweet gertrude to dead…

Laertes says that to be calm would show that he is not a legitimate son The most likely subject of the verb “acts” is person “both of the worlds” most likely refers to the worlds of this life and the…