Hamlet Act 3

Front 1

“O, ‘tis too true!/How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!/The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,/Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it/Than is my deed to my most painted word.” Here, “my” = __________ and this speech appears as an address to the audience known as a(n) __________

Back 1

Claudius, aside

Front 2

“My lord, I have remembrances of yours,/That I have longed to re-deliver;/I pray you, now receive them.” Here, “lord” = __________ and “I” = __________

Back 2

Hamlet, Ophelia

Front 3

“Where’s your father?” Answer this question accurately.

Back 3

Hiding behind the curtain

Front 4

“Love! His affections do not that way tend;/Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,/Was not like madness.” Here, “he” = __________ and the speaker is __________

Back 4

Hamlet, Claudius

Front 5

“…but yet I do believe/The origin and commencement of his grief/Sprung from neglected love.” Here, “I” = __________

Back 5

Polonius

Front 6

Supply the missing word: “Give me that man/That is not passion’s __________, and I will wear him/In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of hearts,/As I do thee.” Here, “I” = __________ and “thee” = __________ and “thee” is in the FORMAL or FAMILIAR and so what?

Back 6

Slave, Hamlet, Horatio, Familiar

Front 7

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” Here, “lady” = __________

Back 7

The Queen

Front 8

Supply the missing word: “This is one Lucianus, __________ to the king.”

Back 8

Nephew

Front 9

“Very like a whale.” What is very like a whale? This, of course, is one more example of a major activity in this play, the act of __________

Back 9

hyperboles

Front 10

“…now could I drink hot blood…” Here, “I” = __________

Back 10

Hamlet

Front 11

“Behind the arras I’ll convey myself,/To hear the process; I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home.” Here, “I” = __________ and “she” = __________

Back 11

Polonious, Gertrude

Front 12

“…Pray can I not,/Though inclination be as sharp as will.” Here, “I” = __________

Back 12

Claudius

Front 13

Supply the missing word: “Now might I do it pat, now he is __________”

Back 13

praying

Front 14

“Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!/I took thee for thy better…” Here, “thee” = __________ and “better” = __________ and “I” = __________

Back 14

Polonius, Claudius, Hamlet

Front 15

“To whom do you speak this?” Answer this question: __________ and “you” = __________

Back 15

Ghost, Hamlet

Front 16

“For this same lord,/I do repent.” Here, “lord” = __________ and “I” = __________

Back 16

Polonius, Hamlet

Front 17

“…and my two schoolfellows,/Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d,/They bear the mandate.” Here, “I” = __________ and “schoolfellows” = __________ and “mandate” = __________

Back 17

Hamlet, R/G, promise

Front 18

“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.” Here, “I” = __________ and “guts” = __________

Back 18

Hamlet, Polonius

Front 19

What figure of speech can you find in the following line: “Indeed the counsellor/Is now most still, most secret and most grave.”

Back 19

Verbal irony, Polonius