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Study Sheet: Hamlet - Key Events, Scenes & Quotes: # Event Act & Scene Key Quote(s)

The document outlines key events, scenes, and quotes from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.' It details significant moments such as the appearance of the ghost, Hamlet's feigned madness, and the climactic duel, along with notable quotes from various characters. The summary captures the progression of the plot and the themes of revenge, madness, and mortality.

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Study Sheet: Hamlet - Key Events, Scenes & Quotes: # Event Act & Scene Key Quote(s)

The document outlines key events, scenes, and quotes from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.' It details significant moments such as the appearance of the ghost, Hamlet's feigned madness, and the climactic duel, along with notable quotes from various characters. The summary captures the progression of the plot and the themes of revenge, madness, and mortality.

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📚 Study Sheet: Hamlet – Key Events, Scenes & Quotes

# Event Act & Key Quote(s)


Scene
1 The Ghost appears at Act 1, “This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
Elsinore Scene 1 – Horatio
2 Claudius becomes Act 1, “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt…”
king; Hamlet is Scene 2 “A little more than kin and less than kind.”
grieving – Hamlet
3 The Ghost tells Hamlet Act 1, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”
Claudius is the Scene 5 – Ghost
murderer “O my prophetic soul! My uncle!” – Hamlet
4 Hamlet pretends to be Act 2, “Though this be madness, yet there is method
mad Scene 1–2 in’t.” – Polonius
“I am but mad north-north-west.” – Hamlet
5 The players (actors) Act 2, “The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the
arrive Scene 2 conscience of the King.” – Hamlet
6 “The Mousetrap” play Act 3, “Give me some light. Away!” – Claudius
reveals Claudius’s Scene 2 “I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound.”
guilt – Hamlet
7 Hamlet kills Polonius Act 3, “How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!”
behind the arras Scene 4 “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.”
– Hamlet
8 Claudius sends Hamlet Act 4, “Do it, England; For like the hectic in my blood
to England to be killed Scene 3 he rages…” – Claudius
9 Ophelia goes mad and Act 4, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”
dies Scene 5 & – Ophelia
7 “Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia…”
– Laertes
1 Laertes returns to Act 4, “To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!”
0 avenge his father Scene 5 – Laertes
1 Hamlet escapes death Act 4, (Explained by Hamlet) “Rosencrantz and
1 in England Scene 6 Guildenstern are dead.”
1 Gravedigger scene; Act 5, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”
2 Hamlet reflects on Scene 1 – Hamlet
death
1 Ophelia’s funeral; Act 5, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could
3 Hamlet and Laertes Scene 1 not with all their quantity of love / Make up my
fight sum.” – Hamlet
1 The duel: poisoned Act 5, “The king, the king’s to blame.” – Laertes
4 sword and cup; many Scene 2 “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet
die prince.” – Horatio
1 Hamlet kills Claudius Act 5, “Then, venom, to thy work!” – Hamlet
5 Scene 2
1 Fortinbras arrives and Act 5, “Let four captains / Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to
6 takes the throne Scene 2 the stage.” – Fortinbras

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