Act 3 Flashcards
“Get thee to a nunnery! … **
… Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners.” ~ Hamlet **
“To be or not to be, … **
… that is the question.” ~ Hamlet **
“though it lacked form a little …
… / Was not like madness.” ~ Claudius
“There’s something in his soul …**
… O’er which his melancholy sits on brood.” ~ Claudius **
“Madness in the great ones …
… must not unwatched go.” ~ Claudius (to Polonius)
“hold, as t’were, … **
… the mirror up to nature.” ~ Hamlet **
“suit the action …
… to the word.” ~ Hamlet (to the Players)
“He pours the …
… poison into the sleeper’s ear.” ~ stage directions
“O good Horatio, …
… I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound.” ~ Hamlet
“my offence is rank’ it smells to heaven … **
… / It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t - A brother’s murder.” ~ Claudius **
“May one be pardoned … **
… and retain th’ offence.” ~ Claudius **
“wretched state! O bossom black as death! … **
… / O limed soul that, struggling to be free / Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay” **
“Bow …
… stubborn knees.” ~ Claudius
“Now might I do it pat, … **
… now he is praying / And now I’ll do’t - and so he goes to heaven…O this is hire an salary, not revenge.” ~ Hamlet **
“what a … **
… rash and bloody deed is this.” ~ Gertrude **
