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1
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Which soliloquy appears in this part of the play?

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O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

2
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‘Must like a whore….

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Unpack my heat with words’

3
Q

‘I’ll have these players play something like the ….

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Murder of my father before mine uncle’

4
Q

‘The plays the thing

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Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’

5
Q

‘The thing that I have

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Seen may be a devil’

6
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‘What’s Hecuba to him,

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Or he to Hecuba?’

7
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‘Had he had motive, and the

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Cue for passion that I have?’

8
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‘Am I a

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Coward?’

9
Q

‘Plucks off me beard and

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Blows it in my face’

10
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Remorseless, treacherous,

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Lecherous, kindless villain!’

11
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‘Oh

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Vengeance!’

12
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‘The instant burst of clamour that she made (…) would have made milch the burning eye of heaven’ what does this refer to?

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Hecuba crying at the death of Priam

13
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Which play does Hamlet ask the players to perform?

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The Murder of Gonzago

14
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‘And like a natural to his will and matter, did nothing’ how does this link to Hamlet’s actions?

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Pyrrhus pauses for a long time before killing Priam, just has Hamlet is taking his time deliberating whether to kill Claudius or not

15
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‘This is too long’, why is this ironic

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Because Polonius always gives unnecessarily long speeches

16
Q

Writhing Hamlets speech about Pyrrhus, which word link to the semantic field of violence?

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Ominous, dread, dismal, tyrannous, murder, blood, gore, hellish

17
Q

‘I know a hawk from

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A handsaw’

18
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Which line does Hamlet repeat after Polonius says it?

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‘My lord I have news to tell you’

19
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Which phrase mocks gossiping?

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‘Buzz, buzz’

20
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Who does Hamlet compare Polonius too, and why is this significant?

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Jephtha, a military leader who sacrificed his daughter to God, this is significant because it foreshadows Ophelia’s suicide

21
Q

How would you describe Hamlet’s sense of humour?

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Dark, macabre

22
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What kind of actors arrive

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Child actors

23
Q

‘But my uncle-father …

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And aunt-mother are deceived’

24
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Who, out of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, admits that they have been sent for?

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Guildenstern

25
Q

The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals- and yet to me,

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What is this quintessence of dust?’

26
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How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern reveal they were sent for?

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‘Your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather’, careless and makes out that it is irrelevant

27
Q

‘Foul and pestilent congregation

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Of vapours’

28
Q

Quotations which link to the theme of surveillance and entrapment

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‘ Denmark is a Prison’

‘I could be bounded in a nutshell’

29
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How does Hamlet describe those around him?

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‘Tedious fools’

‘I am most dreadfully attended’

30
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A quotation revealing that Hamlets knows that R and G are lying to him

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‘There is a kind of confession in your looks’

31
Q

‘Though this be madness yet

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There is method in it’

32
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‘Excellent, well are

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You the fishmonger?’

33
Q

‘I’ll loose my

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Daughter to him’

34
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‘Into madness wherein now he raves and all we mourn for’ who said it?

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Polonius

35
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‘More matter,

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Less art’

36
Q

What does Veltemand reveal about Norway

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They have prevented Firtinbras invading Denmark and sent him to Poland instead

37
Q

‘Brevity is

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The soul of wit’

38
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How does Claudius forget himself when discussing Hamlet’s madness?

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‘The source of your son’s distemper’

39
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What does Gertrude say is the source of Hamlet’s madness?

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‘His fathers death and Our o’erhasty marriage’

40
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A quotation to express Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s sycophancy

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‘To lay our service freely at your feet/ to be commanded’

41
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Gertrude correcting Claudius

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‘ Thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz’

42
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Gertrude describing Hamlet

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‘My too changed son’