Themes
, Indecision
‘There are more
‘The play’s the thing
‘with wings as swift things in heaven and
wherein I’ll catch the
‘My fate cries out’ … May sweep to my earth, Horatio than
conscience of the
1.4 revenge’ are dreamt of in our
king’
1.5 philosophy’
2.2
1.5
‘Must like a whore
‘Bloody, bawdy ‘I am pigeon livered
‘Am I a coward?’ unpack my heart with
villain!’ and lack gall’
2.2 words’
2.2 2.2
2.2
‘To die, to sleep/To
‘Like john-a-dreams, ‘Conscience does
‘Undiscovered sleep perchance to
unpregnant of my make cowards of us
country’ dream, ay there’s the
cause’ all’
3.1 rub’
2.2 3.1
3.1
‘When he is drunk
‘And so he goes to
‘Now might I do it ‘This same villain asleep, or in his rage,
heaven; and so I am
pat, he is praying’ send to heaven’ or in th’incestuous
revenged’
3.3 3.3 pleasure of his bed’
3.3
3.3
‘only I’ll be revenged
‘O, What a rash and ‘A king of shreds and ‘A foolish prating
most thoroughly for
bloody deed is this!’ patches’ knave’
my father’
3.4 3.4 3.4
4.5
‘Alexander died
‘Who shall stay ‘He leaps in after ‘He stabs claudius ...
alexander was buried,
you?’/’My will, not all laertes, grappling he forces claudius to
alexander returneth
the world’ with him’ drink’
to dust’
4.5 5.1 5.2
5.1
, Indecision
‘There are more
‘The play’s the thing
‘with wings as swift things in heaven and
wherein I’ll catch the
‘My fate cries out’ … May sweep to my earth, Horatio than
conscience of the
1.4 revenge’ are dreamt of in our
king’
1.5 philosophy’
2.2
1.5
‘Must like a whore
‘Bloody, bawdy ‘I am pigeon livered
‘Am I a coward?’ unpack my heart with
villain!’ and lack gall’
2.2 words’
2.2 2.2
2.2
‘To die, to sleep/To
‘Like john-a-dreams, ‘Conscience does
‘Undiscovered sleep perchance to
unpregnant of my make cowards of us
country’ dream, ay there’s the
cause’ all’
3.1 rub’
2.2 3.1
3.1
‘When he is drunk
‘And so he goes to
‘Now might I do it ‘This same villain asleep, or in his rage,
heaven; and so I am
pat, he is praying’ send to heaven’ or in th’incestuous
revenged’
3.3 3.3 pleasure of his bed’
3.3
3.3
‘only I’ll be revenged
‘O, What a rash and ‘A king of shreds and ‘A foolish prating
most thoroughly for
bloody deed is this!’ patches’ knave’
my father’
3.4 3.4 3.4
4.5
‘Alexander died
‘Who shall stay ‘He leaps in after ‘He stabs claudius ...
alexander was buried,
you?’/’My will, not all laertes, grappling he forces claudius to
alexander returneth
the world’ with him’ drink’
to dust’
4.5 5.1 5.2
5.1
