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King Claudius - proclaiming his relation to hamelt (family) ( appearance v reality)

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“my cousin Hamlet, and my son”

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Hamlet being sassy in response to Claudius
(appearance v reality)

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King Claudius “my cousin Hamlet, and my son”

“a little more than kin and less than kind”

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Gertrude - hamlet’s grief

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“cast thy nighted colour off”

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Claudius about Hamlet’s grief

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“tis unmanly grief”

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Hamlet - suicidal (madness)

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“this too too solid flesh would melt. thaw and resolve itself into a dew”

“everlasting” had not “fixed his cannon ‘gainst self slaughter”.

“weary, stale, flat unprofitable” “the uses of the world”

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hamlet - talking about denmark (corruption)

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“tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed: things rank and gross in nature”

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Hamlet talkling about gertrude’s marraige to claudius (family)

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“most wicked speed” to
“incestuous sheets”

Leviticus 20:21 which stated that “if you marry your sister-in-law, neither of you will ever have any children”.

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Hamlet’s misogyny (towards gertrude) (women)

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“Frailty, thy name is woman”

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Sometimes sister, now our queen
Imperial jointeess

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Hyperion to a satyr

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Hamlet comparing Claudius to his father

Hyperion - one of the titan gods jn greek mythology

Satyr - grotesque creature, half-man and half-goat, symbolic of sexual promiscuity.

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The perfume and suppliance of a minute

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Laertes to ophelia

Comparing hamlets live and affection of ophelia to something not lasting

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“He may not… carve for himself”

his “choice depends” on “the safety and health of this whole state”

Denmark is a “body” as he is the “head”

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Laertes talking about hamlet

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“Fear it ophelia”

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Laertes to ophelia warning her about being taken advantage of

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I don’t know my lord what I should think

I shall obey my lord

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Ophelia to Polonius

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“Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned”

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King, father, royal Dane

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Old hamlet dressed in “complete steel”

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“Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night”

“Confined to fast in fires”

Till his “foul crimes” are “burnt and purged away”

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“List, list, list, O, list!”
“If thou didst ever thy dear father love”

“Swear”

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“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

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“ a serpent stung me”

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Serpent possibly religious imagery

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“Leperous distilment”

“Swift as quick silver”

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Hebenon

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Witchcraft of his wit

seduce… my most seeming virtuous queen

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Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest

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Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch’d

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Old hamlet emphasising what he has lost

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Memory holds a seat in this distracted globe

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Possible reference to globe theatre shakespeare’s plays were performed in

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“Damned villain”. “Smiling”

“Arrant knave”

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dishonest or unscrupulous man.
(no morals, dishonest)

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“To put on an antic disposition”

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“Doublet all unbraced… his stockings foul’d”

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30
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“The very ecstasy of love”

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31
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“His father’s death, and our o’erhasty marriage”

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Gertrude being a smart queen

32
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More matter with less art

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Gertrude being a sassy icon to polonius

33
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“Faithful and honourable”

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King Claudius about polonius

34
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You are a fishmonger

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Hamlet to Polonius

Fishmongers (sellers of fish) are identified as low class and vulgar, while Polonius is of the nobility.

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slang for “pimp.” Hamlet thinks Polonius put his selfishness in front of his daughter’s happiness

35
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On fortunes cap we are not the very button

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Guildenstern

the view of tragedy derives from the Medieval concept of fortune, which was personified as Fortuna, a blindfolded woman who turned a wheel at whim. Men were stationed at various places on the wheel—the top of the wheel represented the best fortune, while being under the wheel the worst fortune. However, the wheel could turn suddenly and the man on top could unexpectedly find himself under the wheel, without warning.

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Denmark is a prison

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37
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What a piece of work is man
“Excellent canopy”
“Majestical roof fretted with golden fire” - but hamlet sees it as a congregation of vapours”

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E.c - edges do the world
Boiling it down to simplest form

38
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What is this quintessence of dust

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39
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I am but mad north north west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw

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mad north-northwest”

– A compass… bit off. Hamlet is only a little bit off his rocker.

– North-northwest is just one of sixteen points on the compass. Hamlet is only crazy once in a while.

“When the wind is southerly”

– In England … clear skies (and presumably clear minds).

Knows the did between both meaning he knows when he’s being deceived

40
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I am pigeon- liver’d and lack gall
John a dreams

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41
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Like a whore, unpack my heart with words

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42
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“What dreams may come” once we have “shuffled of this mortal coil must give us pause”

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43
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Conscience does make cowards of us all

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44
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Get thee to a nunnery

“We are arrant knaves”

“Proud, revengeful, ambitious”

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45
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You jig, you amble, and you lisp

“Paintings” “god has given you one face and you make yourselves another”

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46
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Blasted with ecstasy

The courtier’s, soldier’s scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword.

Expectancy and rose of the fair state

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47
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“Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”

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48
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That is not passions slave

In my heart of heart as I do thee

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Hamlet and Horatio being gay

49
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I’ll take the ghosts word
for a thousand pounds

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50
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Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe

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51
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“Churchyards yawn… hell it’s self breathes out”
Can hamlet “drink hot blood” , do “bitter business”

“I will speak with daggers”

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52
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My offence is rank it smells to heaven

“Brothers blood”

Enough “rain… in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow”

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53
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My crown, mine own ambition and my queen

Bow, stubborn knees

Heart with strings of steel be soft as sinews of the newborn babe

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Sinews - tissue holding muscle and bone together

54
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“Cillian kills my father”

“Sole son” “do this same villain send to heaven”

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55
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Mutine in a matrons bones

These words, like daggers, enter mine ears

Murderer and a villian

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Mutine - rebellion

Hamlet being serifs

56
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from the Shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his pocket

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57
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Confes yourself to heaven, repent what’s past

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Hamlet to Gertrude

58
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R&g like “sponge”
“Soaks up the kings countenance, his rewards, his authorities

“Squeezing you”… “shall be dry again”

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59
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political worms are e’en at him

We fat all creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for maggots

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60
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To all that fortune, death and danger dare even for an egg shell

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61
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I dare damnation

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Laertes confronting Claudius

62
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Rue columbines daisy violets robin

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rue - the symbol for adultery; the symbol for genuine repentance of all transgressions for women; the symbol for everlasting suffering Rue is very bitter.

daisy - love, beauty and fertility, motherhood new beginnings

violets - everlasting love, modesty, spiritual wisdom, faithfulness,

63
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Envious sliver broke

“Fell in the weeping brook” along with her “weedy trophies”

Pulled from her “melodious lay” to a “muddy death”

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64
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Murderous incestuous damned Dane drink off this potion

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65
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Foul practice hath turn’s itself on me lo”
Exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet

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66
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Goodnight sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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67
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Yorick
Where be gibes now?…your songs?

Takes the skull

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hamlets old jester’s skull

68
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Imperious Caesar, dead and turns to clay

“Stop a hole to keeep the wind away”

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69
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Forty thousand brothers, could not,with all their quantity of love, make up my sum

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70
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“He has my dying voice”

“Prophesy the election lights on fortinbras”

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71
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show yourself your father’s son in deed

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claudius manipulating laertes

72
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‘I have of late – but wherefore I know not – lost all my mirth’

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hamlet being a depressed icon

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