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The lady doth too much, methinks. -Act 111, Scene 11 Hamlet–Gertrude doesn’t agree with play “queens” protests about remarrying. Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. -Act 111, Scene 11 Self/Hamlet–Gertrude preparing…

Claudius Hamlet’s uncle and stepfatherBrother of Old HamletHusband of Gertrude Hamlet Son of Gertrude and old HamletFriend of HoratioIn love with Ophelia Gertrude QueenHamlet’s motherWife of Old Hamlet and Claudius Ghost Old HamletHamlet’s fatherClaudius’s brother Polonius father of Ophelia and…

This above all: to thine own self be true. Polonius Act 1 Scene 3 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Claudius Act 3 Scene 3 A rhapsody of words. Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4 I must be cruel, only…

Act 1.1 Ghost appears to sentinels twice and sceptical Horatio. They decide to tell Hamlet Act 1.2 Claudius and Gertrude have an announcement/parade in court – Claudius tells him not to grieve. Hamlet soliloquy about his disgust for his mother’s…

“A little more than kin, and less than kind.” Hamlet “I am too much in the sun” Hamlet “Remember thee! ….. Remember thee!” Hamlet “O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!” Hamlet “What a piece of work…

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…

How is distance between the dead and living worlds shown within the scene? (Hamlet’s scepticism). “Wither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I’ll go no further…” How is the strength of Hamlet’s bond to his father shown through a sense of…

Assay (V) Attempt or try; examine or analyzeSentence: He assayed the peanut to find out if he is allergic Purport (V) Appear or claim to be or do something, especially false Sentence: He’s not who he purports to be. Purportedly…

How strange or odd some’er I bear myself / (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on) HAMLET, Act I, scene v And with a look so piteous in purport / As if he…

To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To…