"Hamlet", understanding Shakespeare language
Read Act I of the play, then go to the assignment and list at least two examples for each of the language patterns you have found in Act I. Give the scene and line number where you find each example.
1. Unusual word arrangement
I could a tale unfold (I, v)
In my mind's eye (I, ii)
It cannot come to good (I, ii)
It started like a guilty thing (I, i)
Leave her to heaven (…
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…to the cuckold.
fain= gladly
forsooth= truly, used for emphasis
forswear=renounce or perjure
hap=perhaps, sometimes written as haply
hence=away from here; also later
marry=a mild oath using a corrupted spelling of "Mary"; indeed
mistress=any woman, often the female head of the household, or the object of a man's affection; seldom used in the modern sense of a woman engaged in an affair
tarry=wait
thence=away from there
wherefore=why
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