1.2, Hamlet: Frailty, | frailty, thy name is woman |
1.2, Hamlet: a beast | a beast that wants discourse of reason/ would have mourned longer |
2.1, Ophelia: I did repel | I did repel his letters and denied his access to me |
2.1, Polonius to Reynaldo: But breath his faults | but breath his faults so quaintly/ that they may seem the taints of liberty |
1.3, Polonius to Ophelia: Think yourself a baby/ | Think yourself a baby that you have taken these tenders for true pay/ which are not sterling |
1.3, Polonius to Ophelia: Be something | scanter of your maiden presence |
3.2, Hamlet to Ophelia: It would cost you | a groaning to take off mine edge |
1.3, Laertes warns Ophelia of | contagious blastments |
3.1, Hamlet to Ophelia: marry a fool. | marry a fool. for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. |
2.2, Hamlet sees himself as womanly: ‘must like a wh*re | must like a wh*re unpack my heart with words |
4.7, when Laertes finishes crying, the ‘woman | the woman will be out |
5.2, Hamlet tells Horatio that Claudius has ‘killed | killed my king and whored my mother |
3.4, Hamlet says that Gertrude sleeps in ‘the rank sweat | the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/ stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/ over the nasty sty |
1.5, Hamlet: let not the royal… | let not the royal bed of Denmark be/ a couch for luxury and damned incest |
1.3, Laertes tells Ophelia not to let go of her | chaste treasure |
5.1, Laertes grieves for Ophelia’s | fair and unpolluted flesh |
3.1, Hamlet to Ophelia: Get thee | get thee to a nunnery |
1.3, Laertes advises Ophelia to keep the ‘rear of your affection/ | rear of your affection/ out of the shot and danger of desire |
3.4, emphasising incest, Hamlet calls Gertrude a | husband’s brother’s wife |
1.3, Ophelia to Laertes: tells him not to show her ‘the steep and thorny way to heaven’ while | himself the primrose path of dalliance treads |
1.3, Ophelia: I do not know | I do not know my Lord what I should think |
3.1, Ophelia to Hamlet: ‘I was | I was the more deceived |
3.1, Ophelia to Hamlet: ‘take these again, for to the noble mind/ | take these again, for to the noble mind/ rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind |
3.1, Ophelia’s soliloquy: describes Hamlet as ‘blasted | blasted with ecstasy |
3.1, Hamlet to Ophelia: I have heard of your paintings… | I have heard of your paintings. God hath given you one face and you make yourself another |
3.1, Ophelia’s soliloquy: And I, of ladies | And I, of ladies most deject and wretched |
3.1, Ophelia to Hamlet: ‘I think | I think nothing, my Lord |
3.1, Ophelia to Hamlet: you are | You are naught, you are naught |
4.5, Gertrude describing Ophelia’s death: ‘an envious sliver broke… | an envious sliver broke and herself fell in the weeping brook. |
4.5, Gertrude describing Ophelia’s death: she chanted snatches | she chanted snatches of old tunes, as one incapable of their own distress |
4.5, Gertrude describing Ophelia’s death: ‘like a creature | like a creature native and indued unto that element |
Polonius decides to send Ophelia to Hamlet. Language reiterates her being used as a pawn | i’ll loose my daughter to him |
Claudius thinks Hamlet’s grief is not masculine | ’tis unmanly grief |
Green girl quote: ‘affection? | Affection? Pooh, you speak like a green girl |
5.1, Hamlet to Laertes: Dost thou | dost thou come here to whine?/ to outface me with leaping on her grave?/ Be buried quick with her, and so will i |
4.5, Ophelia: Where is | where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? |
4.5, Gertrude: each toy | each toy seems prologue to some great amiss |
4.5, Laertes on Ophelia: ‘Thoughts and afflictions, | thoughts and afflictions, passion, hell itself,/ she turns to favour and to prettiness |
4.5, Ophelia hands out these flowers: | fennel, columbines, rue, daisies |
4.5, Gertrude: ‘her clothes spread wide, | her clothes spread wide, and mermaid-like awhile they bore her up |
3.1, Polonius: ‘How now, Ophelia?/ | How now, Ophelia?/ You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said./ We heart it all |
Hamlet quotes: Gender, sexuality, misogyny
August 24, 2019