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 Hamlet
| Who said the following: 'And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God bye you!'? | Quotes from Hamlet
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| Who said the following: 'There is a willow grows aslant a brook, that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream...'? | Quotes from Hamlet
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Gertrude. Act IV, scene 7
| Who said the following: 'Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a begger.'? | Quotes from Hamlet
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| Who said the following: 'I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men'? | Quotes from Hamlet
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Prince of Denmark. His parents were the King and Queen.
Ophelia. But she goes crazy when Hamlet kills her father.
Horatio. It's Shakespeare - everyone dies!
Wittenberg. He had been going to school there.
Polonius. Polonius was Ophelia's father.
England. The King was going to have the people in England execute Hamlet.
Queen of Denmark. She married Claudius so she could continue to be Queen.
Denmark. That's why he is the Prince of Denmark!
Shakespeare. I hope you all got that one right!
Fortinbras. Everyone's dead and Fortinbras has just taken over Denmark, so Fortinbras becomes King.
| What are the first words Hamlet speaks in the play? | Hamlet
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"A little more than kin and less than kind". Hamlet shows his disapproval of Claudius' marriage with his mother and expresses that he doesn't feel like a 'cousin' of Claudius at all.
| What are Hamlet's last words? | Hamlet
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"The rest is silence". Hamlet's last words belong to the most famous Shakespeare quotes.
| What's the name of the Norwegian prince? | Hamlet
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Fortinbras. Young Fortinbras is the Prince of Norway.In contrast to Hamlet, he is the one who first acts, then thinks.
Hamlet's lover. Ophelia and Hamlet are in love, but Ophelia's father doesn't want his daughter to date the prince any longer.
| And who is Ophelia's father? | Hamlet
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Polonius. Ophelia and Laertes are Polonius' children. All of them die - Hamlet kills Polonius by mistake, Ophelia, who has gone mad, drowns, and Laertes dies in the duel with Hamlet.
| Which of the follwoing quotes is not from 'Hamlet'? | Hamlet
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"False faces hide what the false heart doth know". These lines are from 'Macbeth', spoken by Macbeth when he decides to kill the king and pretend to be grieving over his death.
| Who speaks the last lines of the play? | Hamlet
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Fortinbras. Fortinbras arrives in the end and finds almost everyone dead. He wants to know what happened, and he can't feel happy when he learns that he will be King of Denmark.
| And what is the last line of the play? | Hamlet
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"Go bid the soldiers shoot". Fortinbras orders his soldiers to shoot as a last honor for Hamlet.
A word about modern interpretations: Some modern director had Fortinbras order Horatio's execution instead! Isn't that weird?
| With which phrase does Bernardo 'unfold himself' to Francisco in the first scene of the play? | Hamlet
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"Long live the king!". The line 'Hail our majesties' doesn't appear in the play. 'Something is rotten...' is said by Marcellus, and 'Denmark's a prison' is how Hamlet feels.
love. Said by Polonius. You really have to feel bad for Ophelia- her father was not a very nice person.
Barnado and Marcellus. Francisco has just gone off duty. It was during the hours when Barnardo and Marcellus kept watch that the ghost had started to appear.
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