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Francisco: ‘I am…’ (1.1)

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‘I am sick at heart.’ (Act 1, scene 1, line 8)

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Marcellus: ‘Horatio says…’ (1.1)

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‘Horatio says ‘tis but our fantasy,’ (Act 1, scene 1, line 23)

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Horatio: ‘This bodes some…’ (1.1)

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‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’ (Act 1, scene 1, line 69)

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Claudius: ‘With one auspicious…’ (1.2)

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‘With one auspicious and one dropping eye,’ (Act 1, scene 2, line 11)

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Claudius: ‘With mirth in…’ (1.2)

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‘With mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage,’ (Act 1, scene 2, line 12)

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Exchanges with Gertrude and Hamlet in Act 1, scene 2…

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Gertrude: ‘Why seems it so particular with thee?’
Hamlet: ‘Seems madam? nay it is,…/ …‘Tis not alone my inky cloak…/Nor customary suits of solemn black/… suspiration of forced breath,/… fruitful river in the eye/… Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,/… These indeed seem,/ For they are actions that a man might play,/ …within which passes show - /These but the trappings and suits of woe.’ (1.2.75-86)

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Hamlet's Soliloquy (1.2):
'too too solid...'
'His canon...'
' 'tis an unweeded...
'How weary, stale...'
'excellent a king...'
'might not beteem the winds...'
'failty...'
'with such dexterity...'
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‘this too too solid flesh would melt,/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,’

‘Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon gainst self slaughter.’

’ ‘tis an unweeded garden/ That grows to seed,’

‘So excellent a king, that was to this/ Hyperion to a satyr…’

‘might not beteem the winds of heaven/ Visit her face too roughly’

‘frailty, thy name is woman’

‘With such dexterity to incestuous sheets.’

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Laertes: ‘Out of the shot…’ (1.3)

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‘Out of the shot and danger of desire.’ (Act 1, scene 2, line 35)

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Ophelia: ‘He hath my lord of…’ (1.3)

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‘He hath my lord of late made many tenders/Of his affection to me.’ (Act 1, scene 3, line 99-100)

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Hamlet: ‘Angels and…’ (1.4)

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‘Angels and ministers of grace defend us!’ (Act 1, scene 4, line 39)

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Marcellus: ‘Something is…’ (1.4)

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‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’ (Act 1, scene 4, line 90)

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Ghost: ‘I am thy father’s spirit,…’ (1.5)

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‘I am thy father’s spirit,/ Doomed for a certain term to walk the night,/ And for the day confined to fast in the fires,’ (Act 1, scene 5, line 9-11).

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Ghost: ‘Ay, that incestuous…’ (1.5)

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‘Ay, that incestuous, that adulterous beast,/ With witchcraft of his wits,’ [sibilance- repulsion] (Act 1, scene 5, line 42-3).

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Ghost: ‘porches of my ear did pour’ (1.5)

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‘The leperous distilment, whose effect/ Holds such an enmity with blood of man…’ (Act 1, scene 5, lines 63-65)

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Hamlet: ‘O most pernicious…’ (1.5)

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‘O most pernicious moment!/

O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!’

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Hamlet: ‘The time is out of joint:’ (1.5)

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‘The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,/ If ever I was born to set it right.’ (Act 1, scene 5, line 189-90)

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Polonius: ‘By indirections…’ (2.1)

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‘By indirections find directions out’ (Act 2, scene 1, line 64)
-draw many parallels.

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Ophelia’s episode. (2.1)

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lines 76-98, one of the most puzzling parts of the play

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Hamlet: (To Polonius) ‘Excellent well…’ (2.2)

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‘Excellent well, y’are a fishmonger.’ (line 173)

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Hamlet: ‘for there is nothing either good…’ (2.2)

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‘for there is nothing either good/ or bad but thinking makes it so.’ (Line 239-40)

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Polonius: (Shakespeare’s anticipation of criticism due to the length of the play) (2.2)

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‘This is too long.’ (line 456)

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Claudius: ‘turbulent…’ (3.1)

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‘turbulent and dangerous lunacy’ (line 4)

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Hamlet's thinking man soliloquy (3.1):
'tis nobler in the mind...'
'in that sleep...'
'shuffled off...'
'Thus conscience...'
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‘…‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing end them.’

‘in that sleep of death what dreams may come.’

‘shuffled off this mortal coil,’

‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,’

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Hamlet: ‘The play’s the thing…’ (2.2)

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‘The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’ (line 557-8)

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The Nunnery Episode (3.1): 
Hamlet: 
'proud...'
'get thee...'
'thou shalt not...'
'I have heard your.../...make yourselves another'

Ophelia:
‘with them words…’
‘Oh what a noble…’
‘Soldiers, scholar…’

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Hamlet:
‘I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my/beck than I have thoughts to put them in.’

‘Get thee to a nunnery’

‘thou shalt not escape calumny.’

‘I have heard your paintings too, God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig, you/ amble, and you lisp,’

Ophelia:
‘with them words of so sweet breath composed/As made the things more rich.Their perfume lost,’

‘Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthhrown!’

‘soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword,’

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Claudius: ‘Whereon his brains still…’ (3.1)

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‘Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus/ from fashion of himself.’ (line 168-9)

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Hamlet: ‘in suffering all…’ (3.2)

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‘In suffering all that suffers nothing,’ (line 56)

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Hamlet: ‘look you how cheerfully…’ (3.2)

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‘look you how cheerfully my mother looks,/and my father died within two hours’ (line 112-13).

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Hamlet: ‘I’ll take the Ghost’s…’ (3.2)

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‘I’ll take the Ghost’s word for a thousand pound’ (line 260).

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Hamlet: ‘I will speak daggers…’ (3.2)

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‘I will speak daggers to her but use none’ (line 357).

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Player King: ‘purpose…’ (3.2)

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‘Purpose is but slave to memory,’ (line 169)

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Hamlet: ‘Shall I lie in your lap?’ (3.2)

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‘Shall I lie in your lap? … country matters … to lie between maid’s legs … Nothing’ (lines 99-107)

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Claudius: ‘My words fly up,…’ (3.3)

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‘My words fly up, my thoughts remain below./Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’ (line 97-98)

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Hamlet's behind Claudius's back soliloquy (3.3):
'Now might I...'
'this is hire...'
'A took my father grossly...'
'Up sword...'
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‘Now might I do it pat, now a is a-praying,’

‘this is hire and salary, not revenge.’

‘A took my father grossly…/With all his crimes broad blown,’

‘Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent,/ When he drunk, or in his rage,/ Or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed,’

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Claudius’s unexpected Soliloquy (3.3):
‘Oh my offence…’
‘Though inclination be…’

Sentence structure…

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‘Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven’

All sentence lengths and tempo of Claudius’s soliloquy is very even, makes it sound like he is completely comfortable with the murder.

‘Though inclination be as sharp as will./ My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,’

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stichomythia between Hamlet and Gertrude in 3.4

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Gertrude: ‘Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.’
Hamlet: ‘Mother you have my father much offended.’
Gertrude: ‘come, come you answer with an idle tongue.
Hamlet: ‘Go, go you question with a wicked tongue.’
(lines 9-12)

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Hamlet: ‘like a mildewed…’ (3.4)

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‘like a mildewed ear/Blasting his wholesome brother.’ (lines 64-5)

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Hamlet ‘A bloody deed…’ (3.4)

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‘A bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother,/ As kill a king and marry with his brother’ (lines 28-9) - Followed by Gertrude’s echo that confirms her innocence.

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Hamlet: ‘Look here upon…’ (3.4)

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‘Look here upon this picture,’ (line 53) Stage direction with multiple interpretations. Lockit to newspaper.

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Gertrude: ‘turn’st my eyes…’ (3.4)

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‘turn’st my eyes into my very soul,/ And there I see such black and grained spots’ (line 90)

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Hamlet: ‘In the rank sweat of an…’ (3.4)

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‘In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/ stewed in corruption, honeying and making love’ (line 93-4)

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Ghost: ‘Do not forget…’ (3.4)

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‘Do not forget. This visitation/ is to whet thy almost blunted purpose.’ (line 109-110)

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Hamlet: ‘Confess yourself…’ (3.4)

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‘Confess yourself to heaven,/Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come’ (150-151).

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Gertrude: ‘Mad with the…’ (4.1)

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‘Mad with the sea and wind, when both contend/ Which is mightier.’ (lines 7-8)

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Rosencrantz: ‘Take you me…’ (4.2) - Hamlet: ‘ay sir…’

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‘Take you me for a sponge my lord?’ (line 14)

‘ay sir, that soaks up the king’s countenance,’ (line 15)

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Claudius: ‘th’offender’s scourge…’ (4.2)

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‘th’offenders scourge is weighed,/ but never the offence.’ (line 6-7) We pay more attention to the sufferings of the criminal, instead of the crimes.

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Claudius: ‘Diseases desperate…’ (4.3)

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‘Diseases desperate grown/By desperate appliance are relieved.’

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Hamlet: ‘Hide fox…’ (4.2)

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‘Hide fox, and all after!’ (line 27)

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Hamlet: ‘a certain convocation…’ (4.3)

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‘A certain convocation/ of politic worms are e’en at him.’ (line 19-20)

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Claudius: ‘He’s loved of the distracted multitude,’ (4.3)

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‘He’s loved of the distracted multitude,’ (line 4)

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Captain: ‘We go to gain…’ (4.4)

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‘We go to gain a little patch of ground/ That hath no profit but the name.’ (line 18-19)

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Hamlet: ‘How all occasions…’ (4.4)

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‘How all occasions inform against me,/ and spur my dull revenge!’ (line 32)

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Laertes: ‘O thou vile…’ (4.5)

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‘O thou vile king,/ give me my father.’ (line 116-7)

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Laertes: ‘That drop of blood…’ (4.5)

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‘That drop of blood that is calm proclaims me bastard’ (118)

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Claudius: ‘Hamlet’s character…’ (4.7)

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returning ‘naked’ and ‘alone’

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Claudius: ‘That we would do…’ (4.7)

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‘That we would do,/We should do when we would, for this ‘would’ changes,/ And hath abatements and delays…’ (line 117-119)

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Claudius (interrupting Pathos): ‘How much I had…’

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‘How much I had to do to calm his rage’ (Line 192)

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Claudius: ‘as the star moves not but in…’ (4.7)

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‘as the star moves not but in his sphere,/ I could not but buy her’ (lines 15-16)

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Asserts the play’s religious context… (5.1)

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‘Christian burial’, ‘salvation’, ‘scripture’, ‘church’, and ‘doomsday’. (lines 1-50)

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Ranting Laertes in 5.1

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Full of hyperbole:

‘a speech of fire that fain would blaze’ (line 190)
‘Oh treble woe/ Fall ten times treble on that cursed head’ (line 213-14)
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Hamlet: ‘I loved Ophelia;’ (5.1)

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‘I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers/ could not with all their quantitiy of love/ Make up my sum.’ (236-8)

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