| 1. Guildenstern |
| 2. achievements |
| 3. circumstance |
| 4. compulsatory |
| 5. conveniently |
| 6. demonstrated |
| 7. disappointed |
| 8. entreatments |
| 9. incontinency |
| 10. indirections |
| 11. instrumental |
| 12. invulnerable |
| 13. questionable |
| 14. stubbornness |
| 15. undertakings |
| 16. unprevailing |
| 17. unprofitable |
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| 1. Dramatis Personae - Claudius, King of Denmark. - Marcellus, Officer. - Hamlet, son to the former, and nephew to the present king. - Polonius, Lord Chamberlain. - Horatio, friend to Hamlet. - Laertes, son to Polonius. - Voltemand, courtier. - Cornelius, courtier. - Rosencrantz, courtier. - ____, courtier. - Osric, courtier. - A Gentleman, courtier. - A Priest. - Marcellus, officer. - Bernardo, officer. - Francisco, a soldier - Reynaldo, servant to Polonius. - Players. - Two Clowns, gravediggers. - Fortinbras, Prince of Norway. - A Norwegian Captain. - English Ambassadors. - Getrude, Queen of Denmark, mother to Hamlet. - Ophelia, daughter to Polonius. - Ghost of Hamlet's Father. - Lords, ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, Attendants. |
| 2. Hamlet comments to his friend Horatio : This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations; They clip us drunkards and with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our ____, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. |
| 3. Hamlet's father's ghost says to Hamlet : Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched; Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, ____, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Notes: Anele = anoint. Unaneled = unanointed. |
| 4. Polonius comments to his daughter Ophilia Hamlet's love : Affection? Pooh! You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous ____. |
| 5. Horatio explains to Bernardo about the motives of young Fortinbros : But to recover of us, by strong hand And terms ____, those foresaid lands So by his father lost; and this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations, The source of this our watch, and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage in the land. - Notes : Bernardo (officer) tells Horatio- Hamlet's friend before seeing the ghost of the slain king : I think it be no other but even so. |
| 6. Hamlet wonders to himself in resignation after seeing his mother and uncle Claudius : How weary, stale, flat, and ____ Seem to me all the uses of this world!. |
| 7. Horatio (Hamlet's friend) comments about bad omens for the country : And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together ____ Unto our climature and countrymen. |
| 8. King Claudius was chiding Hamlet : We pray you throw to earth This ____ woe, and think of us As of a father; for let the world take note You are the most immediate to our throne, And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son Do I impart toward you. King Claudius was childing Hamlet : For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire; And we beseech you, bend you to remain Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. |
| 9. Polonius asks his daughter Ophilia to accompany him to the King and Queen's presence : Come, go with me. I will go seek the King Claudius : This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate ____ As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures. Polonius inquires from his daughter Ophilia whether she spoke any harsh words to Hamlet : I am sorry. |
| 10. Polonius counsels his daughter Ophilia about Hamlet's love : Set your ____ at a higher rate Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, Believe so much in him, that he is young, And with a larger tether may he walk Than may be given you. Note : 'tether' here means : restraint consisting of a rope chain used to restrain an animal. |
| 11. Hamlet to his father's ghost : Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a ____ shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me? Note : Goblin = a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings. |
| 12. Horatio (Hamlet's friend) says to Marcellus (officer) : Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know Where we shall find him most ____. (Horatio) Exeunt. |
| 13. Polonius (Ophilia's father) says to Reynaldo (his servant): See you now- Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By ____ find directions out. |
| 14. Polonius (Ophilia's father) says to Reyaldo (his servant) : You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to ____. |
| 15.King Claudius to Hamlet : It is 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. But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious ____. |
| 16.King Claudius to Polonius's son Laertes : The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more ____ to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. |
| 17.Marcellus (Officer) tells his colleagues. Context : Their effort to pierce the slain king's ghost with a partisan failed : We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence; For it is as the air, ____, And our vain blows malicious mockery. |
