Hamlet—Identifications—know in what context and with what significance these items occur in the play:
Act I:
Barnardo
Francisco
Marcellus
Fortinbras
Cornelius
Voltemand
Wittenberg
Elsinore
“the funeral baked meats”
“primrose path”
“this above all, to thine own self be true”
“O my prophetic soul”
“put an antic disposition on.”
Act II:
Paris
Reynaldo
“by indirections find directions out”
“Mad for thy love?”
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
“glean whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus”
a fishmonger
“Denmark’s a prison”
Jephtha
Pyrrhus
Hecuba
The Murder of Gonzago
“the play’s the thing.”
Act III:
orisons
nunnery
“the dread of something after death”
“all but one shall live”
England
“not a pipe for Fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please”
Julius Caesar
dumb show
The Mousetrap
Lucianus
“will you play upon this pipe?”
Nero
“some act that has no relish of salvation in’t”
“speak daggers . . but use none”
“Do you see nothing there?”
Act IV:
“not where he eats but where he is eaten”
“you shall nose him . . .”
“Do it England”
Saint Valentine’s Day
“I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father”
a pirate
“choose a sword unbated”
“I’ll anoint my sword [with] an unction of a mountebank”
“ a willow grows askant a brook”
Act V:
Yorick
clown (Who’s grave’s this? Mine, sir)
Alexander
“my father’s signet”
young Osric
“the readiness is all”
“the drink, the drink”
“good night sweet prince”
“go bid the soldiers shoot”
