Pages to note in Hamlet:
ACT II
II.ii.475 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (Soliloquy)
Act III
King: as ‘twere by accident King: The harlot’s cheek: my most painted word
To be or not to be
you jig, you amble, and you lisp
King: Was not like madness
III.ii.230 King: Give me some light: away!
III.iii.36-61 King: O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
Hamlet: No! When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed; King: My words fly up
III.iii Hamlet: I took thee for thy better.
Hamlet: In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty,--
Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;
ACT IV
Act IV Queen: mad as the sea and wind
Scene ii sponge
Scene iii King: must seem / Deliberate pause
Hamlet: you shall nose him
King The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England.
scene iv Hamlet: How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! (SOLILOQUY)
scene v Ophelia: let in the maid, that out a maid
King: we have done but greenly, In hugger-mugger to inter him
King: let him go, Gertrude.
King: Like a good child
King: let the great axe fall.
scene Vii King: so that my arrows
King: Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Queen: There is a willow
ACT V
Act V [churchyard, comic relief, riddles, puns]
for thou liest in ‘t
Alas, poor Yorick! (also Alexander stopping a bung-hole)
Hamlet: forty thousand brothers
Queen: This is mere madness
V.ii (last scene of play) My head should be struck off
Osric is “spacious in the possession of dirt”
Gertrude, do not drink. Queen: I will, my lord,; I pray you, pardon me.
Queen: The drink, the drink! Laertes: the king, the king’s to blame.
You that look pale. . . Death is strict in his arrest. Wounded name. The rest is silence.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
