| Hamlet | The prince of Denmark, and a student at the University of Wittenberg. His father dies and his uncle gets the throne and marries his mom. He becomes obsessed with getting revenge over his fathers death |
| Claudius | King of Denmark and Hamlet’s Uncle. He kills king Hamlet and marries Hamlet’s mom. |
| Gertrude | the queen of Denmark and Hamlet’s mother. She marries Claudius after King Hamlet’s death. Hamlet views her as weak and has some major mommy issues |
| Polonius | The lord chamberlain of Claudius’s court, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Gives long and pompous speeches. |
| Horatio | Hamlet’s close friend, who studied with the prince at the University of Wittenberg. He is loyal and helpful to Hamlet. |
| Ophelia | Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman who Hamlet has been in love with. She wants to obey her father and brother by staying away from Hamlet |
| Laertes | Polonius’s spm and Ophelia’s brother, a young man who spends much of the play in France. His character foil is Hamlet |
| Fortinbras | the young prince of Norway, whose father the king was killed by Hamlet’s father. He wishes to attack Denmark to avenge his father’s honor, another Hamlet character foil |
| The Ghost | the specter of Hamlet’s recently deceased father. He claims to have been murdered by Claudius and calls Hamlet to avenge him. |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | two slightly bumbling courtier, former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg, who are summoned to discover the cause of Hamlet’s strange behavior |
| Voltimand and Cornelius | courtiers whom Claudius sends to Norway to persuade the King to prevent Fortinbras from attacking |
| Marcellus and Barnardo | the officers who first see the ghost walking the ramparts of Elsinore and who summon Horatio to witness it. |
| Reynaldo | Poloniu’s servant sent to France to check up on Laertes |
| Francisco | a soldier and guardsmen of Elsinore |
| Elsinore, Densmark | what is the setting of the play? |
| Polonius | “Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris, and how, and who, what means, and where they keep what company at what expense” |
| Reynaldo | who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in France? |
| Hamlet | “HIS doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled, Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle” |
| Love for Ophelia | what does Polonius think of the reason Hamlet has gone mad? |
| Polonius | “This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself a d leads the will to desperate undertakings” |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | who does Claudius and Gertrude ask to find out what is truly bothering Hamlet? |
| Voltemand | this character comes into the play to explain the back drop of what is going on in Norway with Fortinbras |
| Uncle Norway | “HE sent out to suppress his nephew’s levies, which to him appeared to be a preparation against Polack” |
| Polack | who does Fortinbras pretend to attack when his true target is still Denmark? |
| Claudius | “Why day is day, night night, and time is time. Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.” |
| Polonius | who reads Hamlet’s love letter to Ophelia? |
| Polonius | “YOU are a fishmonger” |
| Hamlet | “for if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion-have you a daughter?” |
| Rosencrantz | “the world has grown honest” |
| a prison | what does Hamlet compare Denmark to? |
| Hamlet | “what a piece of work is a man!” |
| the children | who mocks the players? |
| antic-disposition | what does Hamlet call his own craziness? |
| the Aeneid (Dido, Priam, Aeneas) | what fake Shakespearean play does Hamlet quote? |
| The Trojan war (this play refers to the Odyssey) | what is referred to in the play the Aeneid |
| Hamlet | “whats Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?” |
| the devil | what does Hamlet accuse the ghost of being? |
| Ophelia | who interrupts Hamlet’s soliloquy about life and suicide? |
| a nunnery or a convent | what two places does Hamlet demand Ophelia to go? |
| Ophelia | “Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!” |
| Claudius | “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go” |
| Horatio | who does Hamlet ask to help him watch the kings expressions during the play? |
| Julius Caesar | as an actor who did Polonius once portray? |
| a recorder | what instrument does Hamlet ask Guildenstern to play? |
| England | Where is Hamlet to be sent? |
| Polonius | “My lord he’s going to his mother’s closet, Behind the arras I’ll convey myself to hear the process” |
| Claudius | “Oh my offense is rank, it smells to heaven” |
| because he is praying | why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius? |
| Polonius | who does Hamlet kill? |
| Claudius | who does Hamlet think he kills? |
| she doesn’t see the ghost | why does the queen think Hamlet is crazy when the ghost enters? |
Hamlet
August 20, 2019