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Hamlet in an aside about Claudius.
When Claudius and Gertrude are talking to Hamlet after their wedding about his long mourning.

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“A little more than kin and less than kind.”

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Polonius to Laertes about being himself

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” to thine own self be true.”

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Marcellus to Horatio

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

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Ghost to Hamlet about the murder

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“The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown.”

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Hamlet, soliloquy. He feels constrained not to complain but is disgusted by their relationship.

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With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

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Hamlet to Horatio.
hamlet says that rationality cannot explain this as supernatural increases

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

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Hamlet soliloquy. Hamlet berates himself, having seen the passion of the players, for not acting on his own passionate desire for revenge.

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Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I

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Polonius’s spying

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“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”

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Hamlet on first seeing the ghost

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“bring with thee airs of heaven, or blasts from hell….i will speak to thee”

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polonius on Hamlet’s madness

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“though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”

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hamlet to ophelia about sin

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“why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners”

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Ophelia on Hamlet’s madness

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“blasted with ecstasy”

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The ghost about Gertrude’s lies

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“Seemingly virtuous queen”

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Showing Claudius’s malevolence and straight forward language

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“revenge should have no bounds”

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15
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The plays Hamlet

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The thing

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16
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That one may Hamlet

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Smile and smile and be a villain

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The lady doth getrude

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Protest too much, methinks

18
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God hath given you hamlet

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One face, and you make yourself another

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The rest is Hamlet

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Silence

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Goodnight horatio

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Sweet prince

21
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King, Father, Royal Dane

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Oh, Answer Me

22
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You jig and you amble, and you

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Lisp and nickname Gods Creatures

23
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If it be now

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Tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now

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Ophelia is surrounded by powerful men

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Yet they all dissapear, driving her to madness

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Ophelia: lord we know what

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we are, but not what we may be