Clues Across
1. Queen of Denmark, mother
to Hamlet, wife to Claudius
5.Chosen by Hamlet to be
the next king of Denmark upon Hamlet's death
10. Hamlet is reading this
as he encounters and then taunts Polonius.
11.king of Troy murdered
by Pyrrhus; the tale is reecounted to Hamlet by one of the players.
13.To walk lamely.
16.Challeneges Hamlet to
a duel over the death of his father, Polonius
17.a most obedient daughter
18.a son of Achilles; his
sword, "seem's i' the air to stick" before "aroused vengeance sets him
new a work" and he slays 19 down.
20. Periods of time
22.The country of 5 across.
24. Partner to 1 down
27. speaks
28. a twosome
31. a negative or
dissenting vote
32. Hamlet sent here by
Claudius to be killed.
33. One of two men dispatched
from Norway in tinform "old Norway" of the inappropriate actions of his
nephew, young Fortinbras
34. Ophelia could have drowned
here.
36. Same as 11 across.
37. annoy
38. a man whom Hamlet admires
for the fact that his "blood and judgement are so well commingled that
they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger to sound what stop she please"
42. Triumph (past tense)
44. "To be or ___ __ be"
45. described as a "wretched,rash,intruding
fool", his "guts" were "lug(ged) into the neighbour room"
48. a Phenomenon seen as
a sign of good or evil
49. a firm hold on something
51. allow
52. excited or inflamed;
Hamlet decame this whenhe confronted his mother about the death of his
father.
53. cheif executive officer
of a larger corporation (abbreviation)
54. Response; Horatio was
waiting for this but did not get one from the ghost.
55. in hockey, shot the
puck out of defensive territory
56. Ophelia's singing of
this suggests her madness.
57. special apparatus used
for drilling oil wells
59. "and where the offence
is let the great _______ fall"
61. the setting of the play
62. the tip of this was
dipped in poison , resulting in the death of both Leartes and Hamlet
63. Hamlet discovers the
skull of this court jester who entertained Hamlet in his youth.
Clues Down
1. one of Hamlet's "excellent
good freinds" who betrays him
2. this is for remembrance
3. deeply absorbed; engrossed;
Hamlet was this way when he saw his father's ghost
4. symbol of false promises
of love
5. Hamlet dismisses Polonius
as onw of these
6. slang for acceptable
7. a group of three
8. Hamlet's relation to
Claudius
9. Shakespeare's birthplace
12. representative (abbreviation)
14. member of parliment
(abbreviation)
15. Hamlet plans to use
this to "catch the conscience of the king"
19.the seat of the facualty
of reason; intelligence, intellect, or mind (Hamlet this he is ruled too
much by this)
21.a distress signal
23."Fie on't! _____! 'tis
an unweeded garden"
25.Hamlet orders Ophelia
to take herself here!
26.in Elizabethain Language,
a repulsive person or frog
29.the capital of Old Denmark
and the location of the King's palace
30.an eating utensil
33.a city in British Columbia
35.symbol of faithfulness,
they "withered all when my father died"
39.a Shakespearen play can
generally be catagorized as a comedy, as history or a _______
40.carries message to Hamlet
of the probosed duel between Hamlet and Laertes
41.the title of 15 down
- the Murder of ________
42."Frailty, thy name is
______!"(plural)
43.Hamlet berates himself
for cowardice; "But I am pigeon-______'d"
45.Fortinbras' destination
and where he goes "to gain a little patch of ground"
46.if King Hamlet was Hyperion,
King Clauduis was this!
47. dark blue to grayish
purplish blue
50."For 'tis the sport to
have the engineer Hoist with his own ______"(ie. destroyed as a result
of his own deception or trickery)
52.in Greek mythology, wife
to Zeus
56.French for "dry"
58."Speak to me:
_______ there be any good thing to be done,
Speak to me
_____ thou art privy to thy country's fate."
60. Roman numeral "eleven"