Key Clues

	Character	spoken to	scene	line ~ 2	element
who's there?	bernardo	francisco	1,1	1
stand and unfold yourself bernardo guard	francisco		1,1	2
'tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart bernardo	francisco		1,1	8
A piece of him horatio Bernardo	horatio		1,1	19
evt ghost appears 2 two times twice	ghost		1,1	41	& 128
daily cast of cannon massively importing [armaments] impress shipwrights	marcellus		1,1	75
sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day Marcellus	marcellus		1,1	79
mind's eye officers 2-petal lotus	horatio		1,1	117
graves stood tenantless ghost officers	horatio		1,1	120
ambitious Norway combated smote the sledded Polacks on the ice ghost officers Eden	Horatio		1,1	63
Who is’t that can inform me? is it That can I; officers	Horatio		1,1	81
moon sick doomsday eclipse precurse feared events harbingers preceding fates prologue omen coming heaven earth demonstrate fire trial	horatio		1,1	124
evt cock crows ghost vanishes	ghost		1,1	143
his warning sea fire, earth air, water all four elements extravagant erring spirit hies confine all heed him risen savior	Horatio	cock	1,1	155
ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our savior risen against Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long cock	marcellus	cock	1,1	162
morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill sun	horatio		1,1	170
Hamlet dear brother's death memory be green it would befit us our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature we with wisest sorrow think on him Together with remembrance of ourselves. remember front forehead	claudius	King Hamlet	1,2	1	ff
mirth in funeral	claudius		1,2	11
The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father	claudius	laertes re: polonius	1,2	47
she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on Niobe all tears a beast	Hamlet	Gertrude	1,2	142	..149
A double blessing is a double grace	Laertes	Polonius	1,3	54
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,	Polonius	Laertes	1,3	57
green girl	Polonius	Ophelia	1,3	102
At his head a grass-green turf	Ophelia	Polonius	4,5	28
sepulchre Hath op'd opened his ponderous and marble jaws cast thee up again	Hamlet	Ghost	1,4	48
dread pleasures Claudius Gertrude	Rosencrantz	Majesties	2,2	28
you are a fishmonger	Hamlet	Polonius	2,2	174
dreaded sight Marcellus	Marcellus	Ghost	1,1	25
dread lord	Laertes	claudius	1,2	49
dreadful secrecy	Horatio	Hamlet	1,2	207
morning cock crew loud	Horatio	Hamlet	1,2	217
What if it tempt you toward the flood, dreadful summit cliff beetles o'er his base into sea over hanging out there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath. air water trial eee	Horatio	Hamlet Ghost	1,4	69	air water
O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell? O fie, hold, hold, my heart, couple: mate with And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. fire trial	Hamlet		1,5	91	fire
the time is out of joint O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right! trial fire	Hamlet		1,5	188
dread command	Hamlet	Ghost	3,4	108
dread of something after death	Hamlet		3,1	78
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute, No more. nature crescent The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon. in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then, best safety lies in fear: water	Laertes	Ophelia	1,3	7	ff
'Tis in my memory lock'd locked	Ophelia	Laertes	1,3	85
Give thy thoughts no tongue Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel time invests you, go [to France]:	Polonius	Laertes	1,3	60	ff
he hath importun’d importuned me with love In honorable fashion. hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven.	Ophelia	Polonius Hamlet	1,3	111	ff
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France polonius	Laertes		1,2	54
Polonius feigns reluctance, but in fact heartily approves of his son's pursuits in France, land of Thoughtful Soul H'ath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave By laborsome petition, and at last Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent	Polonius	claudius	1,2	57
more than kin, and less than kind	hamlet	claudius	1,2	64
I am too much in the Sun fire trial	hamlet	claudius	1,2	66
vailed veiled lids Seek thy noble father in the dust	Gertrude	hamlet	1,2	69
inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black melancholic earth trial	hamlet	Gertrude	1,2	76
I have that within which passes show	hamlet	Gertrude	1,2	84
going back to school in Wittenberg It is most retrograde to our desire	Claudius	Hamlet	1,2	114
No jocund health that Denmark drinks today alcoholism	Claudius		1,2	125
O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this: But two months dead – nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and Earth, Must I remember? fire eee	Hamlet		1,2	130	ff earth fire water
King Hamlet] Hyperion . . [Claudius] a satyr	hamlet	claudius	1,2	139
Horatio – or I do forget myself.	hamlet	Horatio	1,2	161
Horatio . . fellow student . . from Wittenberg	hamlet	Horatio	1,2	161	ff
We'll teach you to drink deep alcoholism eee	hamlet	Horatio	1,2	175
My father – methinks I see my father. In my mind's eye 2-petal lotus	hamlet	Horatio	1,2	184
upon the platform threshold where we watch mercury guardian	Horatio	Ghost	1,2	213
countenance more In sorrow than in anger	Horatio	Ghost	1,2	232
Hamlet laments hereditary tendency alcoholism dram evil resulting much scandal Ghost appears affirmation evt	hamlet		1,4	7	-36
My fate cries out, makes each petty artere artery body hardy Nemean lion's nerve.	hamlet		1,4	82
He waxes desperate with Imagination	Horatio	Hamlet	1,4	88
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Heaven will direct it.	Horatio		1,4	91
I am thy father’s spirit, Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin’d to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg’d away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. confined purged trial	Ghost	Hamlet	1,5	9	fire
I find thee apt…	Ghost	Hamlet	1,5	31
’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me… . . but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.	Ghost	Hamlet	1,5	35
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts – O wicked wit and gifts that have the power So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming virtuous queen. O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there From me, whose love was of that dignity to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine! But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel link’d, Will sate itself in a celestial bed celestial bed: Garden of Eden And prey on garbage. claudius gertrude eee Claudius Gertrude	Ghost		1,5	42	ff
ebony Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebona in a vial And in the porches of my ears did pour The leprous distillment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigor it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine, And a most instant tetter barked about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched…	Ghost	Hamlet	1,5	61
remember me	Ghost	Hamlet	1,5	90
Remember thee! Remember thee? thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!	Hamlet	Ghost	1,5	96
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables – meet it is I set it down That one may smile and smile and be a villain. joker clown	Hamlet	Claudius	1,5	105
Art thou there, truepenny?	Hamlet	Ghost	1,5	152
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.	Hamlet	Horatio	1,5	168
O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! P. With what, I’ the name of God? O. My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings foul’d, Ungarter’d, and down-gyved to his ankle; Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors,– he comes before me. P. [surprised, excited] Mad for thy love? O. [taken aback, more upset] But truly, I do fear it. ungartered fire trial	Ophelia	Polonius Hamlet	2,1	76
truly, I do fear it he's Mad for [my] thy love	Ophelia	Hamlet	2,1	87
He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As ’a would draw it. Long stay’d he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He rais’d a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being: that done, he lets me go: And, with his head over his shoulder turn’d, He seem’d to find his way without his eyes; For out o’ doors he went without their helps, And, to the last, bended their light on me. back backward trial	Ophelia	Polonius Hamlet	2,1	88
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes seemed back backward	Ophelia	Hamlet	2,1	99
This is the very ecstasy of love	Polonius	Ophelia	2,1	104
it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions	Polonius	Ophelia	2,1	116
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion – Have you a daughter? Let her not walk i' th' sun: Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter may conceive, friend, look to't. Ophelia fire earth trial	Hamlet	Polonius	2,2	181
for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.	Hamlet	Polonius	2,2	196
These tedious old fools!	hamlet	Polonius	2,2	208
What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither? Denmark’s a prison. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams earth trial	Hamlet	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	2,2	226
clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sear melancholic	Hamlet	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	2,2	283	earth
my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. I am but mad north-northwest. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.	Hamlet	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	2,2	312
Roscius was an actor in Rome	hamlet	Polonius	2,2	322
great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts clothes	hamlet	Polonius	2,2	316
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! “One fair daughter, and no more, The which he loved passing well.” Am I not i' th' right, old Jephthah?	Hamlet	Polonius	2,2	332	ff
puts on this confusion Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy claudius knows hamlet sane air trial earth moon	Claudius	Hamlet	3,1	2
He does confess he feels himself distracted, But from what cause ’a will by no means speak. with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. fire air trial initiate secrecy occult	RosencrantzM	Claudius Hamlet	3,1	5	ff
Ophelia, I do wish That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlet's wildness. fire air trial	Gertrude	Ophelia	3,1	38	ff
with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.	Polonius		3,1	47
To be or not to be – that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler, in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep – No more – and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to – 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.	Hamlet		3,1	56	ff
eee To bEE or not to bEE Or to take arms against a sEE of troubles To die, to slEEp a consummation devoutlEE to be wished perchance to drEEm When he himself might his quiEEtus make the respect that makes calamitEE	Hamlet		3,1	56	ff
To be or not to be – ay, there's the point q1	hamlet		3,1	65
Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered	Hamlet	Ophelia	3,1	88
I have remembrances of yours That I have longed long to re-deliver	Ophelia	Hamlet	3,1	92
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?	Hamlet	Ophelia	3,1	143
what he spake sane spoke Was not like madness.	Claudius	Hamlet	3,1	154
Haply the seas, and countries different, With variable objects, shall expel This something-settled matter in his heart,	Claudius	Hamlet	3,1	162
out-of-touch, anachronistic Polonius misjudges Hamlet: I believe The origin and commencement of his grief Sprung from neglected love	Polonius	claudius	3,1	167
Horatio, thou art e’en even as just a man As e’er ever my conversation coped withal. thee no revenue hast but thy good spirits Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath S’Hath sealed thee for herself For thou hast been As one in suffering all that suffers nothing, A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. eee	Hamlet	Horatio	3,2	32
his occulted guilt	hamlet	claudius	3,2	59
I eat the air, promise-crammed. trial	hamlet	claudius	3,2	72
I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed Capitol Brutus killed me. Hamlet It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.	Polonius hamlet		3,2	77
let the stroocken deer go weep The hart ungalled play For some must watch, while some must sleep: Thus runs the world away.	Hamlet	claudius	3,2	227
O Damon dear	hamlet	Horatio	3,2	233
this realm dismantled was Of Jove himself now reigns here pajock peacock air trial ghost	Hamlet	King Hamlet Claudius	3,2	234
The King, sir – Gl. Is in his retirement marvelous distempered with choler.	Guildenstern	Hamlet	3,2	247
Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper?	Rosencrantz	hamlet	3,2	275
I lack advancement. …Ay, sir, but “While the grass grows…” – the proverb is something musty. in full: While the grass grows, the steed starves. fire air trial Claudius	Hamlet	Rosencrantz	3,2	279
O, the recorders! Let me see one. why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil? fire air trial	Hamlet	Rosencrantz	3,2	281
you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; ’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. fire air trial	Hamlet	Rosencrantz	3,2	293
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' Mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed Methinks it is like a weasel Or like a whale Very like a whale air trial	Hamlet	Polonius	3,2	299
he to England shall along with you evt	Claudius	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	3,3	4
The terms our estate may not endure Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow Out of his brows front forehead	Claudius	Hamlet	3,3	5
That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest The lives of many divine right kings	Rosencrantz	Claudius	3,3	14
The [cease] of majesty cess Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it	Rosencrantz	Claudius	3,3	15
my offense hath has the primal eldest curse upon’t upon it A brother's murder. King Hamlet Ghost cain	Claudius		3,3	36
to double business bound	Claudius		3,3	41
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law:	Claudius		3,3	58
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.	Claudius		3,3	97
Hidden/Occult Spy/Confessor: sends Reynaldo to spy on Laertes; Polonius & Claudius spy while baiting Hamlet with Ophelia; Listens concealed in Queen's “closet” while she tries to correct him bedroom Gertrude counselor councilor 3,4 3,1	Polonius		2,1	30	ff
Hamlet's pranks have been too broad to bear with	Polonius	Gertrude	3,4	2
Mother, you have my Father much offended.	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	10
you question with a wicked tongue!	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	12
would it were not so! – you are my mother.	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	16
Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	30
Take thy fortune; Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger	hamlet	Polonius	3,4	33
let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff, If damned custom have not braz’d it so That it be proof and bulwark against sense.	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	35
Heavens face doth glow O'er this solidity and compound mass With heated visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	48
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	40
See what a grace was seated on this brow Hyperion’s Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself An eye like Mars, to threaten and command station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man This was your husband forehead ghost	hamlet	King Hamlet	3,4	55
How Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?	hamlet	King Hamlet	3,4	66
What devil was’t That thus hath cozen’d you at hoodman-blind?	hamlet	King Hamlet	3,4	76
Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn And reason pardons will.	hamlet	King Hamlet	3,4	82
A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings, A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole And put it in his pocket – A king of shreds [notices Ghost, trails off ] and patches Claudius	hamlet	Gertrude Hamlet	3,4	96
Save me and hover o’er me with your wings, You heavenly guards! – What would your gracious figure? Alas, he’s mad! Do you not come your tardy son to chide, That, laps’d in time and passion, lets go by Th’ important acting of your dread command? O, say!	hamlet	Ghost	3,4	103
Do not forget! This visitation Is but to whet thine almost blunted purpose. But look, amazement on thy mother sits. Ohhhh.. step between her and her fighting soul. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Speak to her, Hamlet. remember me	Ghost	hamlet	3,4	109
His form and cause conjoin’d, conjoined preaching to stones, Luke 19:27: if they are silent, the stones will speak Would make them capable.	hamlet	King Hamlet ghost	3,4	125
Do not look upon me, all the more loudly. Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects. Then what I have to do Will want true color – tears perchance for blood.	hamlet	Ghost	3,4	126
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain! O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half!	hamlet Gertrude		3,4	155
I must to England	hamlet	Gertrude	3,4	199
my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged	hamlet	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	3,4	201
I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet.	hamlet	Guildenstern Rosencrantz	3,4	207
A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet	hamlet	Polonius	4,3	20
you shall nose him as you go up the stairs	hamlet	claudius Polonius	4,3	31
I see a cherub that sees them But come, for England. Initiation Imagination purposes.	hamlet	claudius	4,3
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. captain hamlet earth trial		Hamlet	4,4	18
'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.	Horatio	Gertrude	4,5	14
How should I your true love know from another one? By his cockle hat and staff and his sandal shoon. martyr St. James	Ophelia	Hamlet	4,5	23
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly In hugger-mugger to inter him	Claudius		4,5	73
White his shroud as the mountain snow Larded all with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the ground did not go With true-love showers. plant water	Ophelia	Polonius	4,5	30
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. fennel for you, and columbines. violets, but they wither’d withered all when my father died. herb of grace o’ Sundays. You may wear your rue with a difference. daisy plant moon	Ophelia	Polonius	4,5	159
If he be now returned as the King at his voyage [Hamlet] trial	Claudius	Laertes	4,7	58
There is a willow grows askant the brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. Therewith fantastic garlands did she make Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples There on the pendant boughs her crownet weeds Clamb’ring clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. water plant	Gertrude	Ophelia	4,7	156	ff
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia	Laertes	Ophelia	4,7	175
By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of it: the age is grown so pick’d that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. picked Christ Risen One ghost	Hamlet	Horatio	5,1	88
eee There's a divinity DivinitEE divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.	Hamlet		5,2	10
Dost know this waterfly? ’tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast be lord of beasts and his crib shall stand at the king’s mess. ’Tis a chough, but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.	Hamlet	Osric	5,2	85

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