key quotations

Question 1

‘some foul…’

Answer 1

‘some foul play’ - Hamlet, 1:2

Question 2

‘All is…’

Answer 2

‘All is not well’ - Hamlet, 1:2

Question 3

‘So art thou to…’

Answer 3

‘So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.’ - Ghost, 1:5
- calls Hamlet to revenge before he knows why
- regicide

Question 4

‘Revenge his foul and…’

Answer 4

‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’ - Ghost, 1:5
- echoes Hamlet earlier with ‘some foul play’

Question 5

‘O cursed spite…’

Answer 5

‘O cursed spite,/ That ever I was born to set it right!’ - Hamlet, 1:5

Question 6

‘Had he the motive and the…’

Answer 6

‘Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have? He would drown the stage with tears’ - Hamlet, 2:2

Question 7

‘Thus conscience does make…’

Answer 7

‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all’ - Hamlet, 3:1

Question 8

‘Leave her to…’

Answer 8

‘Leave her to heaven’ - ghost, 1:5

Question 9

‘I will speak…’

Answer 9

‘I will speak daggers to her, but use none.’ - Hamlet, 3:2

Question 10

‘These words like…’

Answer 10

‘These words like daggers enter in my ears’ - Gertrude, 3:4

Question 11

‘Help, help…’

Answer 11

‘Help, help, ho!’ - Gertrude, 3:4
- many productions depict Hamlet grabbing her at this point

Question 12

‘we that have free…’

Answer 12

‘we that have free souls, it touches us not.’ - Hamlet, 3:2
> ‘The king rises.’ - Ophelia, 3:2

Question 13

‘But to recover of…’

Answer 13

‘But to recover of us […] those foresaid lands/ so by his father lost’ - Horatio, 1:1

Question 14

‘O, my offence is…’

Answer 14

‘O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven’ - Claudius, 3:3

Question 15

‘cut off even in…’

Answer 15

‘cut off even in the blossoms of [his] sin’ - ghost