HamQuotes

Use quotes from Hamlet to delineate your specific claim about the language that Shakespeare gives different characters (or the same character in different situations).

But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two. 1.2.142 (p.29)

What does this line show about how Hamlet uses informal speech when alone?

Let me not think on ‘t 1.2.150

What does this line show about how Hamlet speaks when alone?

(O, God, a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer!)                                  1/2/154-5 (p.31)

What does this line show about how Hamlet speaks emotionally about his mother when alone?

I must hold my tongue. 1.2.164

What does this line show about how Hamlet speaks when people are approaching?

My lord, I have news to tell you. 2.2.414 (p.107)

What does this line show about how Hamlet speaks mockingly to Polonius?

Bloody, bawdy, villain! 2.2.607 

Like a whore 2.2.614 (p.119)

What does this line show about how Hamlet emotionally calls himself names when alone?