Polonius hides behind the arras Hamlet insults Ophelia Ophelia returns Hamlet’s gifts “Get thee to a nunnery” Ophelia’s heartbreak Hamlet stages “The Mousetrap” Hamlet mocks Polonius Hamlet accuses Gertrude “To be, or not to be” soliloquy Hamlet kills Polonius Dramatic irony Hamlet refuses to kill Claudius Rosencrantz & Guildenstern spy Foreshadowing of tragedy “The lady doth protest too much” Ghost reappears Theme: Appearance vs. Reality Hamlet’s wordplay Claudius prays Gertrude confronts Hamlet Theme: Corruption Claudius reveals guilt Use of metaphor “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go” Polonius hides behind the arras Hamlet insults Ophelia Ophelia returns Hamlet’s gifts “Get thee to a nunnery” Ophelia’s heartbreak Hamlet stages “The Mousetrap” Hamlet mocks Polonius Hamlet accuses Gertrude “To be, or not to be” soliloquy Hamlet kills Polonius Dramatic irony Hamlet refuses to kill Claudius Rosencrantz & Guildenstern spy Foreshadowing of tragedy “The lady doth protest too much” Ghost reappears Theme: Appearance vs. Reality Hamlet’s wordplay Claudius prays Gertrude confronts Hamlet Theme: Corruption Claudius reveals guilt Use of metaphor “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go”
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
G-Polonius hides behind the arras
I-Hamlet insults Ophelia
B-Ophelia returns Hamlet’s gifts
I-“Get thee to a nunnery”
O-Ophelia’s heartbreak
O-Hamlet stages “The Mousetrap”
N-Hamlet mocks Polonius
G-Hamlet accuses Gertrude
B-“To be, or not to be” soliloquy
O-Hamlet kills Polonius
B-Dramatic irony
I-Hamlet refuses to kill Claudius
B-Rosencrantz & Guildenstern spy
O-Foreshadowing of tragedy
G-“The lady doth protest too much”
O-Ghost reappears
I-Theme: Appearance vs. Reality
G-Hamlet’s wordplay
N-Claudius prays
G-Gertrude confronts Hamlet
I-Theme: Corruption
N-Claudius reveals guilt
B-Use of metaphor
N-“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go”