Hamlet Act and Scene Synopsis w/ quotes

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Act 1, Scene 1
Guards on the ramparts talk about the Ghost and then it appears

ā€œfair and warlike formā€
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Act 1, Scene 2
Hamlet is introduced in the court and he prepares to see the Ghost with Horatio and co.

ā€œless than kin and more than kindā€

ā€œmirth in funeral and dirge in marriageā€

ā€œan unweeded garden that grows to seed. Things rank and gross in natureā€
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Act 1, Scene 3
Polonius gives commands to Laertes and Ophelia

ā€œdo not \[ā€¦\] show me the steep and thorny way to Heavenā€

ā€œbe somewhat scanter of your maiden presenceā€
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Act 1, Scene 4
The gang see the Ghost again, it speaks, and Hamlet runs off with it

ā€œsomething is rotten in the state of Denmarkā€

ā€œIā€™ll call thee ā€˜Hamletā€™ ā€˜Kingā€™ ā€˜Fatherā€™ ā€˜royal Daneā€™ O, answer me!ā€
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Act 1, Scene 5
The Ghost delivers his speech and Hamlet forces the gang to keep it secret

ā€œsleeping in my orchard. / A serpent stung meā€

ā€œcourses through / the natural gates and alleys of the bodyā€

ā€œantic dispositionā€
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Act 2, Scene 1
Polonius gets Reynaldo to spy on Laertes and warns Ophelia of a mad Hamlet

ā€œBreathe his faults so quaintly / That they may seem the taints of libertyā€

ā€œThis is the very ecstasy of love / Whose violent property fordoes itselfā€
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Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet is monitored by Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet makes fun of them, then watches the Players and comes up with a plan

ā€œ*Doubt thou the stars are fireā€¦ā€*

ā€œFishmonger \[ā€¦\] breeds maggots in a dead dogā€

ā€œfoul and pestilent congregation of vapoursā€

ā€œWhatā€™s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba?ā€
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Act 3, Scene 1
Polonius requests Ophelia to monitor Hamlet after R+G come back without answers, Ophelia is abused misogynistically by Hamlet

ā€œto be or not to beā€¦ā€

ā€œGet thee to a nunneryā€
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Act 3, Scene 2
Hamlet puts on the play within a play then seeks to kill Claudius

ā€œDo you think I meant country matters / I think nothing my lordā€

ā€œO heart, lose not thy nature, let not ever / the soul of Nero enter this firm bosomā€
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Act 3, Scene 3
Hamlet spies on Claudius confessing during prayer but chooses not to kill him

ā€œTo Heaven. / Oh, this is hire and salary, not revengeā€

ā€œMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below / Words without thoughts never to heaven goā€
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Act 3, Scene 4
Hamlet verbally attacks Gertrude, kills Polonius and sees the Ghost

ā€œCome come you answer with an idle tongue / Come come you answer with a wicked tongueā€

ā€œwould it were not so! - you are my motherā€

ā€œrank sweat of an enseamed bedā€¦ā€
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Act 4, Scene 1
Gertrude informs Claudius about Poloniusā€™ murder

ā€œTo keep it from divulging, let it feed / even on the pith of lifeā€
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Act 4, Scene 2
Hamlet runs linguistic rings around R+G about the location of Poloniusā€™ body before telling them

ā€œTake you me for a sponge, my lord? / Ay, sir, that soaks up the Kingā€™s countenanceā€

ā€œThe body is with the king, but the king is not with the bodyā€
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Act 4, Scene 3
Claudius interrogates Hamlet and prepares to send him to England

ā€œA certain convocation of politic worms are eā€™en at himā€

ā€œA king may go by progress in the guts of a beggarā€
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Act 4, Scene 4
Hamlet sees Fortinbras march into Poland and resolves to be more confident

ā€œMy thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!ā€
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Act 4, Scene 5
Opheliaā€™s madness worsens and Laertes is leading an uprising, but Claudius directs his grief towards Hamlet

ā€œWhen sorrows come they come not in single spies but in battalionsā€

ā€œThereā€™s fennel for you, and columbinesā€
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Act 4, Scene 6
Horatio reads a letter that says Hamlet has been saved from the ship by pirates

ā€œI donā€™t know from what part of the world / I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamletā€
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Act 4, Scene 7
Laertes and Claudius plan to kill Hamlet and Opheliaā€™s death is announced

ā€œFor goodness, growing to a pleurisy / dies in his own too-muchā€

ā€œHer clothes spread wide / And mermaid-like a while they bore her upā€
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Act 5, Scene 1
Hamlet has a conversation with a gravedigger and then fights Laertes in Opheliaā€™s grave to prove their love for her

ā€œThe age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibeā€

ā€œTo outface me with leaping in her grave? / Be buried quick with her? - and so will Iā€
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Act 5, Scene 2
Hamlet fences Laertes, both of them die in the process, Hamlet kills Claudius, Gertrude kills herself, Fortinbras takes over and Horatio survives

ā€œGood night sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy restā€

ā€œDrink off this potion. Is thy union here? / Follow my motherā€