Incest

Question 1

CLAUDIUS’s relations with Hamlet in Scene 2, Act 1

Answer 1

‘my cousin Hamlet, and my son’

Question 2

Act 1, Scene 2: Hamlet’s first line

Answer 2

‘A little more than kin, and less than kind’ - a play on words shows he is clever and witty - antithetical to typical revenge hero, using COMEDY to highlight un-natural-ness of CLAUDIUS’s marriage and ascendency to the throne

Question 3

HAMLET’s obsession with the speed of their marriage and INCEST in Act 1, Scene 2

Answer 3

‘But two months dead - nay not so much…a little month…Oh most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets’

Question 4

Hamlet about C&G 2.2

Answer 4

’my uncle-father and aunt-mother’

Question 5

Hamlet 3.3

Answer 5

‘Fit and seasoned for his passage…Th’incestuous pleasure of his bed’

Question 6

H to G 3.4 corrupted bed

Answer 6

‘But to live in the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed strewed in corruption, honey in hand making love over the nasty sty’