Claudius | Who has assumed the throne since King Hamlet died? |
Gertrude | Who is the queen? |
Cornelius and Voltemand | Who does the King send with a royal dispatch/letter? |
King of Norway (Fortinbras uncle) | To whom is the letter sent? |
stop advancing | What is contained in the letter? |
Laertes | Who is the young nobleman that has requested an audience with the king? |
France | To where is he bound? |
Polonius | Who is the young man’s father? |
he still wears black | Why does Claudius think Hamlet is still grief stricken? |
Why the clouds still hang upon him | What does Queen Gertrude ask Hamlet? |
inner sorrow is so great that his dour appearance is merely a poor mirror of it | What is Hamlet’s reply? |
all fathers die | What does Claudius tell him? |
Wittenberg for school | To where is Hamlet bound? Why? |
to stay with them | What do both Claudius and Gertrude beg of Hamlet? |
wedding | What celebration is going on? |
2 months | How long has it been since the death of King Hamlet? |
Horatio | Who interrupted Hamlet’s soliloquy? |
to tell Hamlet about the ghost | What do they want? |
if they spoke to the ghost | What does Hamlet ask them? |
to keep watch with them for his father’s ghost | What does Hamlet agree to do? |
Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2
August 31, 2019