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Claudius describes gertrude as

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Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state

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Gertrude asks hamlet to

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Cast thy nighted colour off and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark

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Gertrude’s dependency on Old king Hamlet

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Why she would hang on him

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Gertrude asks Hamlet why he is so upset

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Why seems it so particular with thee

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Polonius and Laertes believe Hamlets relationship with Ophelia is

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un meaningful

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Polonious to Ophelia on Hamlet

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You speak like a green girl

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Ophelia as weak minded

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I do not know my lord what i should think

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Hamlet on women

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Frailty thy name is woman !

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Hamlet on Gertrude’s brevity of grieving

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O god a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer

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Hamlet on Gertrude and Claudius Oer hasty marriage

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Most wicked speed - incestuous sheets

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Claudius on Hamlets behaviour

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Dangerous and turbulent lunacy

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Hamlet to Ophelia Nunnery scene

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Get thee to a nunnery

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Hamlet on Ophelias relationship with men

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Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them

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Ophelia on Hamlets madness

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What a noble mind is here oerthrown
O heavenly powers restore him

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Hamlet on Ophelias makeup

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God hath given you one face and you make yourself another

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Hamlet to Gertrude closet scene

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You go not till i set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you

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Gertrude on Hamlets honesty

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Thou turnest mine eyes into my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots

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Gertrude when she thinks Hamlet is going to murder her

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Thou wilt not murder me

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Hamlets description of his fathers murder

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Foul and most unnatural murder
Bloody deed

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Hamlet on Gertrude and Claudius’ love making

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Rank sweat of an en seamed bed stewed in corruption honeying and making love over the nasty sty

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Gertrude promising to keep Hamlets secret

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I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me

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22
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Gertrude’s broken heart

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Thou hast cleft my heart in twain

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Laertes wishes violets would spring from Ophelias

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Fair and unpolluted flesh

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Gertrude on Ophelia and Hamlet

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I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlets wife

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Gertrude on Ophelias funeral flowers

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Bride bed to have decked sweet maid and not have strewed thy grave

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Hamlet on his love for ophelia

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I loved Ophelia. 40 thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum

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Polonius on the lasting of Ophelia and Gertrude’s relationship

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Forward not permanent sweet not lasting

28
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Laertes on Hamlets birth

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His will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth

29
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Gertrude to Ophelia on Hamlets madness

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I do wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlets wildness

30
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Hamlet on Claudius

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Smiling damned villain

31
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Hamlet on Denmarks corruption

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An unweeded garden

32
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Hamlet on Claudius

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This canker of our nature

33
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The ghost on Gertrude

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Most seeming virtuous queen

34
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Hamlet on his sadness

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I know not seems…
Trappings and suits of woe

35
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Polonius advice to laertes

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Give every man thine ear but few thy voice

36
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Hamlet on Claudius

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Incestuous adulterate beast

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Claudius to Laertes on his grieving

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Are you like the painting of a sorrow a face without a heart

38
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Hamlet after slaying polonius

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Thou wretched rash intruding fool

39
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Hamlet on polonius

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“Tedious old fools”
“Foolish praving knave”

40
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Ghosts second visit to hamlet

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This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose

41
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Hamlet on the corruption of the danish court

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Rank corruption… infects unseen

42
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Claudius speaking to England

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Do it England for like the hectic in my blood he rages and thou must cure me

43
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Hamlet on his overthinking

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Or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on th event

44
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Hamlet after seeing Fortinbras

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How stand I then that have a father killed a mother stained, excitements of my reason and my blood and let all sleep

45
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Hamlet on his revenge after seeing fortinbras

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Oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth

46
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Gertrude’s guilt

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So full of artless jealousy is guilt it spills itself in fearing to be spilt

47
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Claudius on Ophelia’s madness

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Poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment

48
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Laertes on his fathers death

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That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard
I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father

49
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Claudius to Laertes on polonius death

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I am guiltless of your fathers death

50
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Claudius on Hamlets popularity

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The great love the general gender bare him
He is loved of the distracted multitude

51
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Hamlet on R&G

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They are not near my conscience
I know the good king and queen have sent for you

52
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Claudius guilt

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O my offence is rank it smells to heaven

53
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Claudius on madness in great ones

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go

54
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Claudius conscience after polonius speech

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How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience
O heavy burden

55
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Claudius in the prayer scene

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Since I am still possessed of the effects for which I did the murder
My crown mine own ambition and my queen

56
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Ghost to hamlet on King Hamlets death

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

57
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Hamlet on Claudius deeds- new found motivation

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He that hath killed my king and whored my mother
Popped in between the election and my hopes
Thrown out his angle for my proper life
And with such cozenage

58
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Laertes conscience

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And yet it is almost against my conscience
Exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet
Mine and my fathers death come not upon thee nor thine on me

59
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Hamlet kills Claudius

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Here thou incestuous murderous damned Dane drink off this potion

60
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Hamlet on conscience

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Thus conscience makes cowards of us all

61
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Hamlet after witnesses Claudius confession

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Now could I drink hot blood

62
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Hamlet to Gertrude on his madness

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I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft

63
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Gertrude on Hamlets madness

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Mad as the sea and wind when both contend

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