| Polonius music to Reynaldo in | ‘let him ply his music’ |
| Polonius metaphorical tactics to Reynaldo in | ‘With windlasses and with assays of bias,/By indirections find directions out’ |
| Hamlet’s dumbshow as described by Ophelia | ‘Pale as his shirt…As if he had been loosed out of hell/To speak of horrors’ |
| Hamlet’s perusal of Ophelia’s face | ‘such perusal of my face/As a would draw it’ |
| Hamlet on Polonius (insight) | ‘fishmonger’ |
| Hamlet on player’s impromptu speech on the siege of Troy? | ‘What would he do/Had he the motive and the cue for passion/That I have?’ |
| Hamlet on theatre’s potential for provoking the audience? | ‘drown the stage with tears…Make mad the guilty and appal the free’ |
| Hamlet on his cowardliness in the light of the players speech? | ‘dull and muddly-mettled’ ‘Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause’ ‘pigeon-liver’d and lack gall’ |
| Hamlet questioning the ghost? | ‘The spirit that I have seen/May be a devil’ assuming ‘a pleasing shape’ |
| Hamlet decided to put the play to the test – to test Claudius, and the Ghost? | ‘The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’ |
Hamlet 2: quotes
September 4, 2019