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This famous playwright wrote the tragedy Hamlet around 1600.
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- Ben Jonson
- John Milton
This is the country where the play Hamlet takes place.
- England
- Denmark
- Norway
- Scotland
This is Hamlet's relationship to the ghost that appears at the beginning of the play.
- Uncle
- Brother
- Father
- Grandfather
This character becomes King of Denmark after murdering his own brother.
- Claudius
- Polonius
- Laertes
- Fortinbras
This is the name of Hamlet's mother, the Queen of Denmark.
- Ophelia
- Cordelia
- Juliet
- Gertrude
This young woman is Hamlet's love interest who eventually goes mad and drowns.
- Gertrude
- Ophelia
- Desdemona
- Portia
This word fills in both blanks in Hamlet's famous soliloquy - _____ or not to _____, that is the question.
- Live
- Die
- Be
- Fight
This is the name of the castle where most of Hamlet takes place.
- Elsinore
- Dunsinane
- Inverness
- Windsor
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