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A packet designed to help students understand Hamlet as we went through it. The quotes are the only quotes students might be tested on in quizzes and tests. This was made for a lower level senior English course.
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Hamlet: Act 1
New Characters (in order of appearance)
Barnardo and Marcellus
Horatio
Ghost
King Claudius
Cornelius and Voltemand
Laertes
Polonius
Hamlet
Queen Gertrude
Ophelia
Plot Synopsis
In your own words, summarize what happened in each scene of this act.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Important Quotes
1) A little more than kin and less than kind. (p. 25)
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2) O, That this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. (p. 29)
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3) Frailty, thy name is woman! (p. 29)
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4) Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. (p. 33)
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5) Neither a borrower or a lender be:For loan oft loses both itself and friend.(p. 43)
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6) This above all—to thine ownself be true….(p. 45)
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7) Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (p.55)
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8) There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (p. 67)
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Hamlet: Act 2
New Characters (in order of appearance)
Reynaldo
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Fortinbras
The Players
Plot Synopsis
In your own words, summarize what happened in each scene of this act.
2.1
2.2
Important Quotes
1) More matter with less art. (p. 89)
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2) There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (p. 99)
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3) I am but mad north, north-west…I know a hawk from a handsaw. (p. 107)
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4) The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (p. 119) Who said it/to whom:
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Hamlet: Act 3
New Characters (in order of appearance)**Hint: these characters are all actors in the play within a play.
Prologue
Player King
Player Queen
Lucianus
Plot Synopsis
In your own words, summarize what happened in each scene of this act.
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Important Quotes
1) To be or not to be, ---that is the question. (p. 127)
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2) Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (p. 129)
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3) The lady doth protest too much, methinks. (p. 151)
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Hamlet: Act 4
New Characters (in order of appearance)
Fortinbras
Captain
Messenger
Sailor
Gentleman
Plot Synopsis
In your own words, summarize what happened in each scene of this act.
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
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1) When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. (p. 209)
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2) I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. (p. 217)
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Hamlet: Act 5
New Characters (in order of appearance)
Gravedigger
Doctor
Osric
Lord
Plot Synopsis
In your own words, summarize what happened in each scene of this act.
5.1
5.2
Important Quotes
1) Alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him well. (p. 249)
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2) Lay her i’ the earth:And from her fair and unpolluted fleshMay violets spring! (p. 253)
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