A-Level Literature Crime Writing Hamlet Key Quotes Revision

A revision grid of key quotes selected for the revision of the Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Focuses on the play as a crime text for A-Level Literature B.

Each quote has analysis of methods, links to context, the crime genre, themes, etc.

The grid also includes exam questions for your students to revise.

Quotes included:

• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• To be or not to be, that is the question
• The play’s the thing wherein I’ll capture the conscience of the king
• Must like a whore unpack my heart with words
• I must be cruel only to be kind
• Tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard
• I will speak daggers to her but use none
• To post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets
• Revenge his most foul and most unnatural murder
• May one be pardoned and retain th’offence?
• You speak like a green girl
• There’s a divinity that shapes our ends

Created by an experienced English teacher.

Looking for more Hamlet revision? Take a look at my other resources:

Hamlet Context Revision: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13333835
Hamlet Key Soliloquies Fully Annotated: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13328691
Hamlet Key Quotes Character Posters: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13344751