Act 2: Scene 2

Question 1

Something have you heard

Of Hamlet’s “transformation”—so call it

Answer 1

Claudius to Guildenstern

Question 2

Since nor th’ exterior nor the inward man

Resembles that it was.

Answer 2

Claudius to Guildenstern

Question 3

What it should be, More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him So much from th’ understanding of himself,
I cannot dream

Answer 3

Claudius to Guildenstern

Question 4

And I beseech you instantly to visit

My too much changèd son.

Answer 4

Gertrude to Guildenstern

Question 5

I have found

The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.

Answer 5

Polonius to Claudius

Question 6

His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.

Answer 6

Gertrude to Claudius

Question 7

Makes vow before his uncle never more

To give th’ assay of arms against your majesty

Answer 7

Voltemand to Claudius

Question 8

to employ those soldiers,

So levied as before, against the Polack,

Answer 8

Voltemand to Claudius

Question 9

That it might please you to give quiet pass

Through your dominions for this enterprise,

Answer 9

Voltemand to Claudius

Question 10

since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief:

Answer 10

Polonius to Claudius

Question 11

More matter, with less art.

Answer 11

Gertrude to Polonius

Question 12

Came this from Hamlet to her?

Answer 12

Gertrude to Polonius

Question 13

And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
“Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star.
This must not be.”

Answer 13

Polonius to Claudius

Question 14

she took the fruits of my advice;

And he, repelled

Answer 14

Polonius to Claudius

Question 15

this declension,
Into the madness wherein now he raves
And all we mourn for.

Answer 15

Polonius to Claudius

Question 16

Do you think ’tis this?

Answer 16

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 17

How may we try it further?

Answer 17

Claudius to Polonius

Question 18

At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him

Answer 18

Polonius to Claudius

Question 19

Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter. If he love her not
And be not from his reason fall’n thereon,

Answer 19

Polonius to Claudius

Question 20

You are a fishmonger.

Answer 20

Hamlet to Polonius

Question 21

be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Answer 21

Hamlet to Polonius

Question 22

Still harping on my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first.

Answer 22

Polonius to Himself

Question 23

What do you read, my lord?

Answer 23

Polonius to Hamlet

Question 24

a plentiful lack of wit,

Answer 24

Hamlet to Polonius

Question 25

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.

Answer 25

Polonius to Himself

Question 26

How pregnant sometimes his replies are

Answer 26

Polonius to Hamlet

Question 27

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal—except my life,

Answer 27

Hamlet to Polonius

Question 28

Denmark’s a prison.

Answer 28

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 29

thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.

Answer 29

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 30

Why then, your ambition makes it one.

Answer 30

Rosencrantz to Hamley

Question 31

what make you at Elsinore?

Answer 31

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 32

To visit you, my lord

Answer 32

Rosencrantz to Hamlet

Question 33

Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation?

Answer 33

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 34

My lord, we were sent for.

Answer 34

Guildenstern to Hamlet

Question 35

why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

Answer 35

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 36

I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted.

Answer 36

Hamlet to First Player

Question 37

Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play The Murder of Gonzago?

Answer 37

Hamlet to First Player

Question 38

You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and insert in ’t, could you not?

Answer 38

Hamlet to First Player

Question 39

Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

Answer 39

Hamlet to Himself

Question 40

That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
515A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing

Answer 40

Hamlet to Himself

Question 41

What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba

That he should weep for her?

Answer 41

Hamlet to Himself

Question 42

What would he do

Had he the motive and the cue for passion

Answer 42

Hamlet to Himself

Question 43

A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak

Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,

Answer 43

Hamlet to Himself

Question 44

Am I a coward?

Who calls me “villain”?

Answer 44

Hamlet to Himself

Question 45

Who does me this?
Ha!
‘Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-livered

Answer 45

Hamlet to Himself

Question 46

I should have fatted all the region kites

With this slave’s offal.

Answer 46

Hamlet to Himself

Question 47

Bloody, bawdy villain!

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

Answer 47

Hamlet to Himself

Question 48

Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,

Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words

Answer 48

Hamlet to Himself

Question 49

I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have, by the very cunning of the scene,

Answer 49

Hamlet to Himself

Question 50

The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power
T’ assume a pleasing shape

Answer 50

Hamlet to Himself

Question 51

I’ll have grounds
More relative than this. The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

Answer 51

Hamlet to Himself