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Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Act 5

Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / … / Have we, as ‘twere with a defeated joy,-- /

With one auspicious and a dropping eye, / … / With mirth in

funeral and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale

weighing delight and dole,-- / Taken to wife.

Claudius to the court (and Gertrude) as he begins court

business after his coronation/wedding.

‘Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, / To give these mourning duties to your father: / But, you must know,

your father lost a father, / That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound / In filial

obligation for some term / To do obsequious sorrow:

Claudius to Hamlet after doing some court business and seeing Hamlet brooding in the corner.

Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, / When the blood

burns, how prodigal the soul / Gives the tongue vows:

Polonius to Ophelia after Laertes has left for France and Polonius

is talking about Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us! / Be thou a spirit of

health or goblin damn’d,

Hamlet to Ghost after he sees him for the first time.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up

thy soul; freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,/

Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair

to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.

Ghost to Hamlet before he tells him that he has been murdered

and hinting at the horrors of Purgatory.

You must not put another scandal on him, / That he is open to

incontinency;

Polonius to Reynaldo as he sends him to France to spy on Laertes.

More matter with less art.

Gertrude to Polonius when he is telling the king and queen about his theory that Hamlet’s madness

is rooted in the lost love of Ophelia.

What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune,

that she sends you to prison hither?

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when he is trying to

find out why they are here in Denmark.

Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has tears in’s eyes.

Polonius to Hamlet when he sees that the First Player is crying as he tells the story of the death of

Priam.

For it cannot be / That I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall / To

make oppression bitter

Hamlet in his soliloquy after hearing the First Player tell the

story of Priam’s death and Hecuba’s reaction to it.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given

you one face, and you make yourselves another; you jig, you

amble, and you lisp, and nickname God’s creatures and make your wantonness your

ignorance.

Hamlet to Ophelia after he discovers she set him up to be

spied on.

O, the recorders! Let me see one. To withdraw with you: -- why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me

into a toil?

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play when

the musicians come into the room.

Now I could drink hot blood

Hamlet in soliloquy just before he goes to talk to his mother in

her chamber.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Claudius to himself after praying and Hamlet has just talked

himself out of killing Claudius.

Look here, upon this picture, and on this, / The counterfeit

presentment of two brothers

Hamlet to Gertrude after he has killed Polonius and he is

confronting Gertrude about his father’s murder and the type of

man Claudius is.

My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother.

Hamlet to Claudius after he has told him where Polonius’s body

is.

We go to gain a little patch of ground / That hath in it no profit

but the name.

Captain to Hamlet as Hamlet is leaving for England and

Fortinbras’ army is on its way to Poland.

That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard, / Cries

cuckold to my father, brands the harlot / Even here, between the

chaste unsmirch’d brows / Of my true mother.

Laertes to Claudius after Claudius tells him to calm down; Laertes has returned from France

after finding out that his father has been murdered

To cut his throat i’ the church.

Laertes to Claudius after Claudius asks him what he would do to Hamlet to show himself his

father’s son.

They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy; but they knew what they did; I am to do a good

turn for them.

Horatio reading a letter from Hamlet describing his encounter

with pirates and how he has returned back to Denmark.

Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her

paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh

at that.

Hamlet speaking to the skull of Yorick (Horatio and Clown 1 are there) after the gravedigger tells him that the skull was the court

jester.

A minist’ring angel shall my sister be, / When thou liest

howling.

Laertes to Priest after the Priest tells him there will be no more

ceremonies for Ophelia’s funeral.

Woul’t weep? Woul’t fight? Woul’t fast? Woul’t tear thyself? /

Woul’t drink up eisel? Eat a crocodile? / I’ll do’t.

Hamlet to Laertes after they fight in Ophelia’s grave.

Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as ‘twere, -- I cannot tell

how.

Osric to Hamlet responding to Hamlet when he first says it is

cold and then says it is hot.

Let four captains / Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; / For

he was likely, had he been put on, / To have proved most royally;

Fortinbras to Horatio and others at the end of the play after he has

taken the throne.