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"In what particular thought to work I know not; But, in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state."

Horatio

What is the name of the play that Hamlet has the players stage to confirm Claudius' guilt?

the mousetrap

The Thane of which Scottish region is stripped of his title for treason, a title then given to Macbeth for valor in battle?

cawdor

Great Vowel Shift

A change in the pronunciation of the long vowels of English, which happened in the centuries around 1500. Most long vowels were raised, but the high vowels became diphthongs.

"Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;"

William Shakespeare

apostrophe

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

"A little more than kin, and less than kind!"

Hamlet

"These indeed seem, / For they are actions that a man might play, / But I have that within which passes show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

Hamlet

"But to persever / In obstinate condolement is a course / Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief."

Claudius

"That it should come to this: / But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two..."

Hamlet

"Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman"

Hamlet

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry."

Polonius

"This above all, to thine own self be true"

Polonius

"He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders / Of his affection to me."

Ophelia

"A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of."

Polonius

"Denmark's a prison."

Hamlet

"Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

Guildenstern

"The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."

Hamlet

"To be, or not to be: that is the question"

Hamlet

"Get thee to a nunnery"

Hamlet

"O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, / Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state"

Ophelia

"It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

Claudius

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Gertrude

"O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"

Hamlet

"They say the owl was a baker's daughter. lord, we know what we are, but now not what we may be. God be at your table!"

Ophelia

Hamlet

Prince of Denmark;

\-Protagonist

\-upset that his uncle killed his father to become king and married Hamlet's mother

\-pretends to be crazy to give him time to figure out how he can get revenge

\-struggles with himself about his hesitation to get revenge

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-secretly murdered his brother to become king and marry the queen

-plots with Laertes to poison Hamlet when he thinks that Hamlet may know his secret

Gertrude

the Queen; Hamlet's mom

-marries Claudius soon after the king dies

-there is no evidence in the play that she knew about the murder but her sudden marriage to Claudius is suspicious

-Hamlet thinks she is weak

-accidentally drinks the poison that is intended for Hamlet

King Hamlet/The Ghost

-murdered by his own brother

-appears before three soldiers, who recognize him as the dead king

-asks Hamlet to avenge his death

-though he is disgusted that his wife Gertrude married Claudius, he asks Hamlet not to hurt her

Polonius

advisor to King Claudius

-father of Ophelia and Laertes

-a windbag and a rambler of wisdom

-spies on Hamlet for the king

-Hamlet stabs him as he is hiding behind a curtain

Laertes

son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia

-is given advice by his father about how to behave in France

-returns from France when he learns of his father's death

-after Ophelia's death, he plots with Claudius to stage a sword fight in which Hamlet will be poisoned

Ophelia

Hamlet's girlfriend

-daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes

-her father tells her not to see Hamlet and her brother tells her Hamlet may not have good intentions toward her

-Hamlet insults her when he is pretending to be crazy

-she commits suicide after Hamlet kills her father

Horatio

loyal friend of Hamlet

-promises to help Hamlet throughout the play

-watches the king during the play to see if he is guilty

-goes to the graveyard with Hamlet

-though he wants to drink the poison too at the end of the play, Hamlet asks him not to so that he can live and help fix things in Denmark

-the only main character in the play to survive

Marcellus

a soldier who is Hamlet's friend

-sees the ghost of Hamlet's father

-swears to Hamlet that he will keep what he sees a secret

Fortinbras

Prince of Norway

-his father, was killed by Hamlet's father

-Fortinbras wishes to attack Denmark to avenge his father's honor

-Hamlet admires how Fortinbras acts to get revenge for his father

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

-old school friends of Hamlet

-Claudius asks them to spy on Hamlet to figure out why he has gone crazy

-Hamlet realizes they are spying on him, rather than being his friends

-are sent to England with Hamlet, along with a letter from King Claudius instructing the King of England to kill Hamlet

-they are killed when Hamlet changes the instructions to read that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be killed instead

King Duncan

King of Scotland; is murdered

Macbeth

Main character who wants to become king. He murders Duncan and anyone in the way of his kingship.

Lady Macbeth

Wife of Macbeth who pushes her husband to kill King Duncan so that he could be king. Is haunted by guilt over the murder of the king.

Banquo

Best friend of Macbeth whose sons will one day be kings; murdered by Macbeth; his ghost haunts Macbeth.

MacDuff

friend of Duncan; finds Duncan's body; not born of woman

Porter

Drunken door keeper; opens the door to "hell"

Malcolm

Duncan's oldest son; Prince of Cumberland (heir to throne of Scotland); Leaves to England

Donalbain

Duncan's younger son; flees to Ireland

Thane of Cawdor

traitor to the Scottish army; is executed

Witches

predict: 1. Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor 2. Macbeth will be King 3. Banquo's sons are in line to be King

Macbeth's castle

Iverness

Duncan's murder was blamed on...

his servents

In Act III, whose ghost did Macbeth see at the royal banquet?

Banquo

What was the weird witches prophecies said at the beginning of the play?

Macbeth will be a thane, Macbeth will be king and Banquo's sons will be kings

What is the first apparition in Macbeth?

an armed head, summoned to warn Macbeth that Macduff is coming back to Scotland to ruin him

What is the third apparition in Macbeth?

that of a child wearing a crown and holding a tree. It declares

What is the second apparition in Macbeth?

a bloody child and it tells Macbeth that no man born of a woman can do him harm

In Act V, who killed Macbeth?

Macduff

Who says, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

the witches

Who says, "So foul and fair a day I have not seen?"

Macbeth

In Act V, who became the new king?

Malcolm

Who says, "Yet do I fear thy nature: It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness."

Lady Macbeth

Who says, "Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

Macbeth

Who says, "Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold?"

Macbeth

Who chants, "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble?"

the three witches

Who says, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

Lady Macbeth

Who says, "Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear.../take any shape but that."

Macbeth

Who says, "Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player..."

Macbeth

Who says, "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

Witches