Hamlet: Appearance and Reality

Question 1

‘Something is _______ in the ______ of Denmark’

Answer 1

‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’

Question 2

‘The play’s the ______, wherein I’ll _____ the ____________ of the king’

Answer 2

‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’

Question 3

‘To __ or not to __, that is the __________’

Answer 3

‘To be or not to be, that is the question’

Question 4

‘O _______, _________, smiling damned ________!’

Answer 4

‘O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!’

A1 S5 (Hamlet about Claudius)

Question 5

‘Assume a _______ if you have it ____’

Answer 5

‘Assume a virtue if you have it not’

A3 S4 (Hamlet to Gertrude’

Question 6

‘God hath given you one ____ and you ______ yourselves __________’

Answer 6

‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another’

A3 S1

Question 7

What act and scene does Claudius refer to Hamlet as:
‘Our son’ + ‘My son’

Answer 7

‘Our son’ - A5 S2
‘My son’ - A1 S1

Question 8

‘The ____ within a ____ tends to _________ the normal barriers between the _______ and the ______’

Answer 8

‘The play within a play tends to dissolve the normal barriers between the fictive and the real’

Maynard Mack

Question 9

‘I’ll ______ my daughter to him’

Answer 9

‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’

Question 10

‘I ____________ am not in __________ but mad in _______’

Answer 10

‘I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft’

Question 11

‘Hamlet’s _________ merely disguised the ______ in the same way ______ disguised conscious ________’

Answer 11

‘Hamlet’s madness merely disguised the truth in the same way dreams disguised conscious realities’

Freud

Question 12

‘The _________ that did ____ thy fathers life now ________ his ______’

Answer 12

‘The serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown’

A1 S5

Question 13

‘Two ______, but to one _____’

Answer 13

‘Two dishes, but to one table’

A4 S3

Question 14

Dumb-show performance A3 S2 in Royal Shakespeare 2009 production

Answer 14

• The camera focuses on the king’s blank/emotionless expression as the murder is displayed
• Hamlet uses a prop camera to pan on the king and queen and watch their reactions
• Hamlet points a finger at the king in an accusatory tone, interrupting the show

Question 15

Display of Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in Kenneth Branagh 1996

Answer 15

• Hamlet speaks to a two-way mirror which Polonius and Claudius are hidden behind
  (mirror=deception/reality+appearance)
• Hamlet appears calm and controlled rather than mad
• Hamlet pulls out a small sword and points it at the mirror