Quotefalls
Directions: Each of these quotefall puzzles is a quotation from Hamlet. Some quotations
are two sentences long. The speaker of each quotation is identified in the title line. Form
the words of each quotation by transferring letters from below the grid to squares in the
columns directly above. Cross out letters as you use them. Note: A black square is a
space between two words, and words are never continued onto the next line.
1. Marcellus: Act 1, scene iv
2. Ghost: Act 1, scene v
3. Hamlet: Act 1, scene v
4. Polonius: Act 2, scene ii
5. Ophelia: Act 3, scene i
6. Hamlet: Act 3, scene iv
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7. Hamlet: Act 4, scene iv
8. Claudius: Act 4, scene v
9. Laertes: Act V, scene i
10. Horatio: Act V, scene ii
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KEY
1. Marcellus: Act 1, scene iv
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
2. Ghost: Act 1, scene v
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown.
3. Hamlet: Act 1, scene v
There are more things in heaven and earth…
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
4. Polonius: Act 2, scene ii
Though this be madness, yet there is a method in ‘t.
5. Ophelia: Act 3, scene i
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
6. Hamlet: Act 3, scene iv
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
7. Hamlet: Act 4, scene iv
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge!
8. Claudius: Act 4, scene v
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
9. Laertes: Act V, scene i
Lay her i’ the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!
10. Horatio: Act V, scene ii
Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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