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Review Hamlet's plot, characters, quotations, craft, and themes across all five acts.
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At the opening watch, who is brought because the guards want a scholar to question the Ghost?
Which event has already happened before the play's first scene begins?
What does the Ghost say caused King Hamlet's death?
Four events: the Ghost's account, The Mousetrap, Polonius's death, Ophelia's funeral. Which comes third?
Why does Hamlet have the players perform a scene like the Ghost's murder story?
What does Claudius do when The Mousetrap reaches the poisoning scene?
In Gertrude's closet, why does Hamlet stab through the arras?
After Polonius is killed, why does Claudius send Hamlet to England?
How does Hamlet survive the trip meant to have him executed in England?
What first drives Laertes to storm back into Denmark demanding revenge?
How does Gertrude report Ophelia's death?
When does Hamlet realize the grave in the churchyard is Ophelia's?
What is Claudius and Laertes's trap for the final duel?
In the final scene, which happens before Hamlet forces Claudius to drink poison?
What role does Horatio serve for Hamlet across the play?
Laertes loses a father and rushes toward revenge; Hamlet loses a father and delays. What does the pairing emphasize?
Fortinbras also has a dead father and a claim to recover. How does he mainly contrast with Hamlet?
Why do Claudius and Polonius hide to watch Hamlet meet Ophelia?
What does Polonius's treatment of Ophelia show about their relationship?
In the closet scene, what is the effect of Gertrude not seeing the Ghost?
How do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern function in Hamlet's story?
What conflict helps define Ophelia's position in the play?
What does Claudius's prayer scene reveal about him?
Which contrast best describes Polonius as a father and counselor?
The play begins with “Who's there?” What mood does that opening question create?
“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'” What is Hamlet rejecting?
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.” What is Hamlet doing in this aside?
Who says, “This above all: to thine own self be true,” and to whom?
“The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown.” What does the Ghost reveal?
Why is Polonius's line “Brevity is the soul of wit” ironic?
“The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.” What does Hamlet announce?
“To be, or not to be: that is the question” begins a soliloquy mainly about what?
Who says, “O, my offense is rank,” and what is happening?
“Now might I do it pat, now he is praying.” Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius then?
Who says, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” during the court performance?
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.” What does this moment emphasize?
“Good night, sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” Who speaks these words?
What do Hamlet's soliloquies mainly allow the audience to hear?
Claudius ends his prayer with “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.” Why is this ironic, given Hamlet's choice moments earlier?
What does the dumb show before The Mousetrap do onstage?
Polonius and Claudius hide during the Ophelia scene, and Polonius hides in Gertrude's room. What stage pattern repeats?
Why do the gravediggers' prose jokes matter before Ophelia's funeral?
How does the Ghost's stage presence change from Act 1 to the closet scene?
What does an aside like Hamlet's “A little more than kin” let the audience hear?
What is the effect of Hamlet speaking prose with the gravedigger?
Which pattern best fits the theme of appearance versus reality in Hamlet?
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” What larger motif does this line support?
Poison enters an ear, words are overheard, and rumors drive action. What motif links these details?
How does the revenge plot damage people beyond Claudius and Hamlet?
Which group of moments most clearly develops the motif of mortality?
How does the play complicate the idea of madness?
Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris to ask around about Laertes. How does this scene extend the theme of surveillance?
What theme is reinforced by The Mousetrap and Hamlet's antic disposition together?
How are Ophelia's choices shaped by the men around her?
“There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” What attitude does Act 5 Hamlet show?
Fortinbras is discussed near the beginning and enters at the end. What does his final arrival do?
How does Polonius's death connect the middle acts to the ending?
Across the play, what happens to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's role?
Back from the sea voyage, Hamlet steps forward at Ophelia's grave: “This is I, / Hamlet the Dane.” What change in him does this show?
Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras all respond to dead fathers. What does this cross-act pattern highlight?
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