terrible scary lit cram for Hamlet

What is the first line of the play?

Who’s there - Barnardo

What time does the play start?

midnight

Who is initially standing guard of Elsinore

Francisco: Barnardo, Marcellus, and Horatio replace him

What is Horatio’s first line?

“A piece of him”

How many times has the ghost appeared before Scene 1

2 nights, which means that it’s appearance in Scene 1 marks the third night he has appeared

On which night did Horatio see the ghost with Marcellus and Barnardo?

The third night

What time does the ghost appear and leave?

Appears at 1 AM, leaves when the cock (rooster) crows at dawn

How do they identify the ghost?

By his armor which is the same as the King when he fought the King of Norway (Old Fortinbras) and frowned the same as when the king fought the sledded polacks (Poles)

Who sees the ghost first?

Barnardo and Marcellus, who then show Horatio

“Unhand me, gentlemen. by heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!”

1.4 Context:Hamlet is trying to follow the ghost, but Marcellus and Horatio try and convince him not to, and hold him back. He threatens to kill

“this above all else, to thine own self be true”

1.3 said by polonius in his closing remarks to Laertes before he goes to France

“something rotten is in the state of Denmark”

1.5 Marcellus discussing the recent odd occurences

“Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught”

1.2 ghost tells Hamlet to leave his mother’s fate to heaven - Gertrude’s punishment is living with the guilt

“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite. That ever I was born to set it right.

1.5 Hamlet. Right after the ghost tells him the fate of his father and his duty to avenge, Hamlet feels panicked that it is his obligation to set it right.

“that one may smile and smile and yet be a villain”

1.5 Hamlet abt Claudius after learning about what he did from the Ghost

“I did repel his letters and denied his access to me”

2.1 Ophelia, taking to Polonius, she explains Hamlet’s recent weird actions and clarifies that she had taken his father’s advice and stopped answering his letters/seeing him.

“Brevity is the soul of wit…your noble son is mad.

2.2 Polonius. speaks with Claudius and Gertrude on his thoughts about the state of Hamlet based on his most recent actions with Ophelia

The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream

2.2 Guildenstern says this while he and Rosencrantz talk w/ Hamlet. This is after Hamlet told his friends of how he felt trapped in Denmark and Elsinore

“for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison” says x and then person y says “Why, then, your ambition makes it one. tis too narrow for your mind.

Hamlet, then Rosencrantz 2.2

“what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties.”

2.2 Hamlet talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Reason and honor make a person human

“the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King/”

Hamlet 2.2 Discusses his plan to use the play: Murder of gonzago/mousetrap to discuss his plan to catch the guilt of the King

“to be or not to be: that is the question”

Hamlet 3.1 in his suicidal contemplation soliloquy

“Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldn't thou be a breeder of sinners”

3.1 Hamlet to Ophelia during their scene with Polonius and Claudius spying (play has not yet happened

“give me some light, away”

3.2 claudius, after seeing the play and needing to get some air because he is guilty

“the lady doth protest too much, methinks

3.2 Gertrude says about the character portraying her while watching the play

“O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven, It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t”

3.3 Claudius says while praying/repenting for his sins though not fully since he will not do anything about it

“these words like dagger enter my ears. No more, sweet Hamlet.

3. 4 Gertrude says about Hamlet’s rude and harsh tone following his murder of Polonius (bedroom scene)

“but we will ship him hence and this vile deed.”

4.1 Claudius says about Hamlet and his being shipped to England

“Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered”

4.1 King discussing how Hamlet should be punished for what he did to Polonius

My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth

4.4 Hamlet resolves that he will now take action after being jealous of Fortinbras fortitude in bringing action for thousands of men who may be killed, Hamlet cannot even kill one man

“Let what comes, only I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father”

4.5 Laertes Discusses his wanting to avenge the murder of his father and plots with Claudius after discovering that it is Hamlet that killed him, not Claudius

“I do not know for what part of the world I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.

4.6, Horatio says this right before opening Hamlet’s letter that says he was attacked by pirates

“til that her garments heavy with their drink pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death.”

4.7 Gertrude describes Ophelia’s poetic death that she witnessed

Alas poor Yorick, I knew him. Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest.

5.1 Hamlet and gravedigger scene. Hamlet is holding Yorick, his old jester’s skull

“the devil take thy soul”

5.1 When Laertes and Hamlet both jump into the grave and start fighting during Ophelia’s funeral

“Here’s to thy health/ Give him the cup”

5.2 Claudius’ attempt in making Hamlet drink out of the poisoned cup which Gertrude accidentally drinks from

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince. And flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

Horatio’s goodbye to Hamlet, who is dying from the poison

“For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune

Act 5 Scene 2, Fortinbras says in a respectful way of inheriting the throne but respecting the tragedy that has occurred.

“Frailty, thy name is a woman”

1.2 Hamlet says after meeting with Claudius and Gertrude

“Neither a borrower nor a lender”

1.3 Polonius says to Laertes as his parting advice before he leaves for France

“A countenance more in sorrow than anger.”

1.2 Said by Horatio to Hamlet when discussing the ghost (King Hamlet)

“O, woe is me/To have seen watch I have seen, see what I see!”

3.1 Ophelia says after the get there to a nunnery scene

“thought this be madness, yet there;s method in ‘t”

2.2 Polonius thinks that Hamlet is faking is anger to try to get Ophelia back

“unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, i’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!”

“1.4 Hamlet wants to follow the ghost, Horatio and Marcellus physically hold him back but Hamlet tells them to let him go or else he’ll kill them

“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

1.5 Ghost commands Hamlet to avenge his father’s murder

“So art thou to revenge, when shalt hear”

1.5 Ghost to Hamlet , again telling him to revenge his death

“with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts love May sweep to my revenge.”

1.5 Hamlet urges the Ghost to reveal the identify of his father’s murder that he can summon up the to seek revenge

“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?”

2.2 Hamlet watched the player perform the thing about Troy and then and then Hamlet is crashing out

“come: the croaking raven doth bellow revenge.”

3.2 Hamlet says during the play

“Polonius: will you walk out of the air, my Lord? Hamlet: Into my grave.”

2.2 Hamlet means that he would rather die than leave with Polonius during this period of time in which he plans his revenge, foreshadowing his own death as well.

“Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my oate across.”

2.2 Hamlet cannot understand why he is so hesitant to take action against Claudius, admission of guilt

“And now I’ll do ‘t. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann’d: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.

3.3 Hamlet contemplating killing claudius, but indecisive and worries about the fact that he is praying

“A man May fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”

4.3 Hamlet reminding the king of his mortality, everyone becomes worm food

“For this same Lord, I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this and that with me, that ti Must be their scourger minister.”

3.4 Hamlet realizes he will face punishment for killing Polonius but also sees himself as from God acting as an instrument of vengeance and punishment,

“How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! what is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

4.4 Hamlet says everything he encounters seems to be accusing him for not taking revenge on his uncle