Act 3: Scene 1 Flashcards
He does confess he feels himself distracted.
Guildenstern to Claudius
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
Guildenstern to Claudius
This night to play before him
Guildenstern to Claudius
And he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties
To hear and see the matter.
Polonius to Claudius
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as ’twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia.
Claudius to Gertrude
We may of their encounter frankly judge,
And gather by him
Claudius to Gertrude
I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlet’s wildness
Gertrude to Ophelia
That show of such an exercise may color
Your loneliness.
Polonius to Ophelia
We are oft to blame in this,
‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.
Polonius to Ophelia
Oh, ’tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
Claudius to Himself
The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!
Claudius to Himself
To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to
Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?
tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished!
Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia
To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia