Act 1 Flashcards
“It harrows me with fear and wonder.”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
SPEAKER: HORATIO
SPEAKING TO: BERNARDO AND MARCELLUS
“it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
SPEAKER: HORATIO
SPEAKING TO: BERNARDO AND MARCELLUS
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: ASIDE ABOUT CLAUDIUS
“Seems, madam! Nay it is; I know not seems.”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: GERTRUDE
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: SOLIOQUY
“‘tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: SOLILOQUY
“All is not well I doubt some foul play.”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: SOLILOQUY
“Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear;”
ACT 1 SCENE 3
SPEAKER: LAERTES
SPEAKING TO: OPHELIA
“I do not know, my lord, what I should think.”
ACT 1 SCENE 3
SPEAKER: OPHELIA
SPEAKING TO: POLONIUS
“it is a custom More honour’d in the breach than the observance.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: HORATIO
“Angels and ministers of grace defend us!”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: THE GHOST
“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee;”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: HORATIO
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
SPEAKER: MARCELLUS
SPEAKING TO: HORATIO
“Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: THE GHOST
“Meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
SPEAKER: HAMLET
SPEAKING TO: SOLILOQUY