Hamlet

Hamlet

1. On Claudius

   • “A little more than kin, and less than kind”
   • “Smiling, damned villain!”
   • “Keeps wassail” “drains his draughts of Rhenish down”
   • “Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”
   • “what, frighted with false fire!”

2. On Polonius

   • “these tedious old fools”
   • “i’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”
   • “you are a fishmonger”
   • “thou wretched rash, intruding fool, farewell.”

3. On Gertrude/ Ophelia/ Women

   • “i shall in my best obey you madam”
   • “Like Niobe, all tears”
   • “incestuous sheets”
   • “the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables”
   • “Frailty, thy name is Woman”
   • “Get thee to a nunnery”
   • “Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
   • “I have heard of your paintings too,God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
   • “Mother, you have my father much offended”
   • “you jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures”
   • “I will speak daggers to her, but i shall use none”

4. Self loathing/ Suicide/ Death

   • “O that this too too solid flesh would melt”
   • “Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter”
   • “weary, stale, flat and unprofitable”
   • “To be or not to be”
   • “I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
   • “Denmark’s a prison”
   • “contagion to this world”
   • “'tis an unweeded garden, / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/ Possess it merely”
   • “That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once”
   • “Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,/Might stop a hole to keep the wind away”

5. Revenge/ Action/ Inaction/ Ruthlessness

   • “I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
   • “Am I a coward?”
   • “proud, revengeful, ambitious”
   • “the play’s the thing/ Wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the king”
   • “thinking too precisely on the event”
   • “a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward”
   • “O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth"
   • “they are not near my conscience” (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern)

6. Madness

   • “to put an antic disposition on”
   • “mad in craft”
   • “we”
   • “i am but mad north-north west, when the wind is southerly i know a hawk from a handsaw”
   • “O What a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”
   • “I will be brief; your noble son is mad.”
   • “Madness in great ones shall not unwatched go”
   • “i did love you once”...”i loved you not”
   • “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”
   • Gertrude - "Alas, he is mad"
   • “this is the very coinage of your brain”
   • Polonius - "The ecstacy of love"
   • Claudius - "his easily excitable mind"
   • Ophelia - "A great mind o'erthrown"