Hamlet Flashcards
“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life ___________”
Now wears his crown
Ghost
“Taint not thy mind, _______________
Against thy mother aught”
Nor let thy soul contrive
Ghost
“At least I’m sure it may be so in ________”
Denmark
Hamlet
A little more kin, less than
Kind
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, __________”
Then are dreamt of in your philosophy
Hamlet
Oh that this too, _______
Too sullied flesh would melt
Hamlet
Neither a ________ or a _________ be
Borrow, lender
Polonium
This above all, to thine own self ______
Be true
Polonium
“Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love,
_____________________”
May sweep to my revenge
Hamlet
Brevity is the soul _________
Of wit
Polonius
More matter,
With less art
Queen Gertrude
Words, words,
Words
Hamlet
For there is nothing good or bad,
But thinking makes it so
Hamlet
What a piece of work is
Man
Hamlet
Shakespeare four great tragedies
Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lier, othello
Shakespeare’s most widely taught plays
Romeo $ Juliet
Julius ceaser
Italicizes or underline
Plays
Two of Shakespeare’s histories
King John
King Henry VIII
Blank verse
Poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameter
Meter
Determined by the number of stressed syllables
Figurative language
A figure of speech in which things that are different are compared with like or as
Metaphor
Relating two different things
Bard
Professional poet
Comedy
Happy ending
More emphasis on situation rather than character
Tragedy
A drama
Character with fatal flaw
History
Sets up genre/history for play
Ben Johnson quote
Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time
Monarchs during shakespeare
Elizabeth I & James I
Shakespeare’s play groups
Lord chamberlains men and kings men
Edward revere
Possible writer of shakespeare plays
