Hamlet Review - Quotations and Contextual Translations

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1.What...doth make the night joint-labourer with the day?

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1.What...doth make the night joint-labourer with the day?

g. Why are people working 24/7?

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  1. A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.

a. The ghost situation is bothersome.

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  1. Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow....[hath] taken to wife.

a. Claudius justifies his hasty marriage.

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  1. A little more than kin and less than kind.

a. Hamlet's opening aside reveals his aversion to his uncle step-father

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  1. Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.

a. Poor leadership ruins a country.

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  1. Funeral...meats did coldly furnish... the marriage tables.

a. Horatio understands Hamlet's sarcasm.

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  1. His will is not his own [as] he...is subject to his birth.

a. bb. Laertes says a prince may not choose his wife.

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  1. Do not...show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst...himself...recks not his own rede.

a. Ophelia challenges her brother not to be a hypocrite.

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  1. Give every man thine ear but few thy voice.

a. Although he is often a fool, this is sound advice to his son.

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  1. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks...when the blood burns ...the [prodigal soul] gives the tongue vows.

i. Foolish girls are seduced by young men's passionate lies.

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  1. They clepe us drunkards.

a. Danes are reputed to drink too much.

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  1. The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown.

l. A ghost says his brother killed him.

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  1. Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

a. Reynaldo is to tell lies and spy on Laertes.

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  1. More matter with less art.

a. Gertrude tells Polonius to get to the point.

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  1. O Jephthah...what a treasure hadst thou!

a. Polonious foolishly ignores Hamlet's warning.

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  1. The spirit I have seen may be the devil.

f. Hamlet doubts the ghost's veracity.

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  1. To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

a. Hamlet considers the afterlife.

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  1. Most sovereign reason...blasted with ecstasy.

a. Ophelia truly believes Hamlet is mad.

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  1. Such love must needs be treason in my breast.

a. An actor's words upset Gertrude.

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  1. I will speak daggers...but use none.

a. Gertrude will hear painful truths.

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  1. In the corrupted currents of this world, offence's gilded hand may shove by justice.

a. Claudius knows he will pay for his crimes in the next world.

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  1. How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!

a. Hamlet believes he's killed the king.

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  1. We have done but greenly in hugger-mugger to inter him.

aa. Claudius realizes he's made a mistake.

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  1. For his death no wind of blame shall breathe.

a. Claudius plots with Laertes.

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  1. One woe doth tread upon another's heel.

a. Ophelia's death soon follows her madness.

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  1. 'Tis a quick lie, sir.

a. A grave digger matches wits with Hamlet.

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  1. Forty thousand brothers could not... make up my sum.

a. Using a hyperbole, Hamlet professes his love for Ophelia.

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  1. They are not near my conscience; their defeat does by their own insinuation grow.

a. Hamlet feels no remorse for sending two former friends to be executed.

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