Hamlet - AO1

Claudius

• "A little more than kin and less than kind." (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Smiling damned villain" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "Bloody, bawdy villain" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "Bloat king" (Hamlet, 3.4)

Gertrude

• "a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "seeming-virtuous Queen" (Ghost, 1.5)

• "O most pernicious woman!" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" (Gertrude, 3.2)

Old Hamlet/Ghost

• "It harrows me with fear and wonder" (Horatio, 1.1)

• "fair and warlike form" (Horatio, 1.1)

• "Pale or red?" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell" (Hamlet, 1.4)

Polonius

• "Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth" (Polonius to Reynaldo, 2.2)

• "A man faithful and honourable" (Claudius, 2.2)

• "Foolish, prating knave" (Hamlet, 3.4)

• "Good old man" (Gertrude, 4.1)

Laertes

• "I came to Denmark To show my duty in your coronation" (Laertes, 1.2)

• "Young Laertes in a riotous head" (Messenger, 4.5)

• "That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "O heat, dry up my brains, tears seven times salt burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "I might be the organ" (Laertes, 4.7)

• "I am justly killed with mine own treachery" (Laertes, 5.2)

• "Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet" (Laertes, 5.2)

Ophelia

• "Chaste treasure" (Laertes, 1.3)

• "You speak like a green girl" (Polonius, 1.3)

• "Pretty Ophelia" (Claudius, 4.5)

• "Rose of May, dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "Her clothes spread wide and mermaid-like awhile they bore her up" (Gertrude, 4.7)

Horatio

• "I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes" (Horatio, 1,1)

• "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "I am more an antique Roman than a Dane" (Horatio, 5.2)

• "Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." (Horatio, 5.2)

Rosencrantz / Guildenstern / Osric

• "To lay our service freely at your feet to be commanded" (R&G, 2.2)

• "Soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities" (Hamlet, 4.2)

• "Our wisest friends" (Claudius, 4.1)

• "water-fly" (Hamlet, 5.2)

• "This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head" (Horatio, 5.2)

Fortinbras

• "Young Fortinbras, of unimproved mettle hot and full" (Horatio, 1.1)

• "Delicate and tender print, whose spirit with divine ambition puffed" (Hamlet, 4.4)

• " Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, for he was likely to have proved most royal" (Fortinbras, 5.2)

Revenge

• "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (Ghost, 1.5)

• "Haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "The time is out of joint! O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right." (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "After Pyrrhus' pause, a roused vengeance sets him new a-work" (Player, 2.2)

• "O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!" (Hamlet, 4.4)

• "The ocean eats not the flats with more impitious haste than young Laertes" (Messenger, 4.5)

• "Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "Revenge should have no bounds (Claudius, 4.7)

Sin and salvation

• "O...that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven" (Claudius, 3.3)

• "That his soul may be as damned and black as hell whereto it goes" (Hamlet, 3.3)

• "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below" (Claudius, 3.3)

• "I dare damnation" (Laertes, 4.5)

Monarchy and kingship

• "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice" (Horatio, 1.1)

• "We have here writ to Norway" (Claudius, 1.2)

• "On [Hamlet's] choice depends the sanctity and health of this whole state" (Laertes, 1.3)

• "Most holy and religious fear it is to keep those many many bodies safe that live and feed upon your majesty" (Guildenstern, 3.3)

• "That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests the lives of many" (Rosencrantz, 3.3)

• "I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, which now to claim my vantage doth invite me" (Fortinbras, 5.2)

Death/suicide

• "Your father lost a father, that father lost his"(Claudius, 1.2)

• "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "To be or not to be, that is the question" (Hamlet, 3.1)

• "to die, to sleep – to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub" (Hamlet, 3.1)

• a king may go a progress/ through the guts of a beggar" (Hamlet, )

• "I dare damnation" (Laertes, 4.5)

• "Therewith fantastic garlands did she make...an envious sliver broke, when down her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, and mermaid-like awhile they bore her up"(Gertrude about Ophelia, 4.7)

• Ophelia "willingly seeks her own salvation"(Gravedigger, 5.1)

• "Of that loam whereto [Alexander] was converted might they not stop a beer barrel?" (Hamlet, 5.1)

• "One that was a woman, but rest her soul she's dead"(Gravedigger, 5.1)

Hamlet’s disgust with sex/asexuality

• "Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Man delights not me – no, nor woman neither" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• Rank sweat of an inseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty"

Hamlet’s misogyny

• "Frailty, thy name is woman" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Oh most pernicious woman" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "Fortune…is a strumpet" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "Like a whore unpack my heart with words, and fall a-cursing like a very drab, a scullion" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "Get thee to a nunnery" (Hamlet, 3.1)

Ideals of masculinity

• "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice" (Horatio, 1.1)

• "Unmanly grief" (Claudius, 1.2)

• "[Claudius is] no more like my father than I to Hercules" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Hellish Pyrrhus…mincing with his sword [Priam's] limbs" (Player, 2.2)

• "His melancholy sits on brood" (Claudius, 3.1)

• "Laertes in a riotous head o'erbears your officers" (Messenger, 4.5)

• "Was't Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet" (Hamlet, 5.2)

• " Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, for he was likely to have proved most royal" (Fortinbras, 5.2)

Humour

• "A little more than kin, and less than kind" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• 'y'are a fishmonger' (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "brevity is the soul of wit" (Polonius, 2.2)

• "Thanks Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern" "Thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz" (Claudius and Gertrude, 2.2)

• Polonius is “At supper… Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.” (Hamlet, 4.3)

• [to Yorrick's skull] "quite chop fallen?" (Hamlet, 5.1)

• "England...there the men are as mad as he"(Gravedigger, 5.1)

Madness and melancholia

• "antic disposition" (1.5)

• "doublet all unbraced...stockings fouled, ungartered" (2.1)

• 'y'are a fishmonger' (2.2)

•  'the satirical rogue says old men...have a plentiful lack of wit' (Hamlet, 2.2)

• 'though this be madness, yet there is method in it' (Polonius, 2.2)

• "This is the very coinage of your brain. This bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in" (Gertrude, 3.4)

• "Lawless fit" (Gertrude, 4.1)

• "the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing" (4.2)

• "how dangerous is it that this man gets loose...he's loved of the distracted multitude"(Claudius, 4.3)

• "there is rosemary, that's for remembrance...and there is pansies, that's for thoughts" (4.5)

Familial relationships

• "A little more than kin and less than kind." (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "Aboard, aboard for shame!" Polonius, 1.3)

• "I shall obey, my lord" (Ophelia, 1.3)

• "Ophelia, walk you here…read on this book" (Polonius, 3.1)

• "O shame, where is the blush!" (Hamlet, 3.4)

• "What a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, an eye like Mars" (Hamlet, 3.4)

• "Sweet Hamlet" (Gertrude, 3.4)

• Thy loving father" (Claudius, 4.3)

Politics and social malaise, corruption and criticism

• "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." (Marcellus, 1.4)

• "The whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death rankly abused" (Ghost, 1.5)

• "The time is out of joint!" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "Denmark's a prison" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "turbulent and dangerous lunacy" (Claudius, 3.1)

• "Behind the arras I'll convey myself to hear the process" (Polonius, 3.1)

• "Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven" (Claudius, 3.3)

• "Laertes shall be king" (Mob, 4.5)

Surveillance and spying; appearance vs reality

• "Springes to catch woodcocks" (Polonius, 1.3)

•  "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain" (Hamlet, 1.5)

• "Do you think I am easier to be played on that a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "Her father and myself, lawful espials" (Claudius, 3.1)

• The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word" (Claudius, 3.1)

• "God has given you one face and you make yourself another" (Hamlet, 3.1)

Acting and theatre

• "Seems madam? Nay it is, I know not seem" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• "[signs of grief] are actions that a man might play" (Hamlet, 1.2)

• what's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/ That he should weep for her?"

• "The play's the thing in which I'll catch the conscience of the king" (Hamlet, 2.2)

• "it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to totters...I would have such a fellow whipped" (Hamlet, 3.2)

• "I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft" (Hamlet, 3.4)

Female exploitation and victimisation

•  "I'll loose my daughter to him" (Polonius, 2.2)

• "Loosed out of hell…he took me by the wrist, and held me hard" (Ophelia, 2.1)

• "Ha, ha, are you honest?" (Hamlet, 3.1)

• "Get thee to a nunnery" (Hamlet, 3.1)

• "I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry" (Hamlet, 3.1)