Hamlet

by William
Shakespeare
Shakespeare-Speak
Write in modern language what Shakespeare meant
when he wrote each phrase.

1. "To be or not to be. That is the question."

Is better to live or to die

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2. “'This sweet and commendable in your nature,
Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father."

Hamlet are sweet and kind to cry your father like

this Hamlet and Horatio in the Cemetery

QUIZ
Draw a line from the characters’ names to their
3. "Before my God, I might not this description.
believe
Without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes." The prince of Denmark, and a
university student. Angry at Gertrude
I swear to God I never would have believed this his recently widowed mother
if I not watch this with my own eyes for marrying his uncle. He's
bitter and depressed.
Polonius
2. King of Denmark. Hamlet's
4. "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it Uncle. He is manipulative,
cruel, and ambitious.
to you, trippingly on the tongue." Ophelia
give the speech as I taught you gently and 3. Queen of Denmark. Hamlet’s
melodiously mother now married to Claudius.

4. Father of Ophelia and The Ghost

Laertes. Pompous and long-
winded but has good intentions.
5. There is good she was spoken with, for she may Hamlet
5. Hamlet's loyal and true friend,
strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds."
a fellow university student.
1.
It is a good idea to talk to her because she could already
6. Daughter of Polonius. Innocent
lead malicious people to have dangerous conclusions Claudius
and sweet. Hamlet loved her.

7. A spirit resembling
Hamlet's dead father. Horatio
Shakspeare-Speak Answers: 1. Is it better to live or to die? 2. Hamlet, you are sweet and kind to mourn your father like this. 3. I swear to God, I never would've believed
this if I hadn’t
conclusions. Quiz Answers: 1. Hamlet 2. Claudius 3. Gertrude 4. Polonius 5. Horatio 6.
Ophelia 7. The Ghost
seen it with my own eyes. 4. Say the speech just as I taught you to, smoothly and musically. 5. It’s a good idea to talk to her, since she might lead people with bad
intentions to dangerous
 Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

Who Said
It?
From this list of characters, write who said each quote.

Hamlet Ophelia Polonius Ghost

Horatio Claudius

1. “O, that this too too solid flesh would

melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. ”

hamlet

Ophelia
2. "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to John Everett Milla
heaven."

Ophelia

9. “What if this cursed hand

Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
3. “Be thou familiar, but by no means — Is there not rain enough in the sweet
vulgar." heavens to wash it white as snow?
Polonius

Claudius
4. “To be or not to be. That is the question."
10. “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet
Hamlet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

5. “Frailty, thy name is woman! ” horatio

hamlet 11. “Why, what should be the

fear? I do not set my life at a pin's
fee,
6. “My hour is almost come And for my soul, what can it do to that,
When I to sulphrous and tormenting Being a thing immortal as itself?"
flames Must render up myself.”
ghost
Hamlet
12. “There is nothing either good or bad
7. “A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. ” but thinking makes it so. ”
Horatio

Hamlet
8. "When sorrows come, they come not single 13. “O, woe is me
spies, But in battalions." To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! ”
Claudius

Ophelia
Answers: 11. Hamlet 2. Ophelia 3. Polonius 4. Hamlet 5. Hamlet 6. Ghost 7. Horatio 8. Claudius 9. Claudius 10. Horatio 11. Hamlet 12. Hamlet 13. Ophelia