Q&A SummaryStory

To live a barren sister al you life,Chanting faint tymns to the cold fruitless moon. Theseus (1.1.72-73)Theseus is asking Hippolyta to reflect on whether or not she really wants to be a lonely nun her entire life and sing songs…

What are Thesues and Hippolyta discussing at the play’s start? (Act 1) Their Wedding How does Hippolyta come to be betrothed to Theseus? (Act 1) Theseus won her in a battle Why is Egeus disturbed? (Act 1) B/c his daughter…

What did the cast of the play decide to do so that the ladies won’t be scared of the killing part in the play? They are going to tell the audience in a prologue that Bottom is playing Pyramus and…

In himself he is;But in this kind, wanting your father’s voice,The other must be held the worthier. Theseus Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,And what is mine my love shall render him.And she is mine, and all my right…

“Is he not… wounded?” A2, Menenius “he has been… bred i’th’wars” A3, Menenius “he is a lion… that I am proud to hunt” A1, Corio “shields before your hearts… and fight with hearts more proof than shields” A1, Corio “I’ll…

Ghost: “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.” -imagery/ symbolism/ metonymy -Denmark is the Garden of Eden Claudius corrupts -not just literal crown but duties, roles, positions O: “I of ladies most deject and wretched…

Summarise the events of the scene. Claudius and Gertrude greet Hamlet’s old friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whom they summoned to Elsinore to figure out why Hamlet is so melancholy. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern happily agree to help.Polonius enters and says that…

Act 1, Scene 1 The ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to Horatio, Bernardo, Marcellus. They decide to tell Hamlet of it. Act 1, Scene 2 Scene of the King Claudius and the court. Hamlet’s first soliloquy where he laments his…

We are oft to blame in this(tis too much proved). That with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself polonius O tis to true King Hamlet To be or not to be Hamlet (third soliloquy…

In Act III, to whom does Hamlet say, “Give me that man/That is not passion’s slave and I will wear him/In my heart’s core.”? Horatio Who says, “In second husband let one be accursed/None we’d the second, but who killed…