Across
- 1. A character used to contrast another
- 3. Tragic queen in a play within the play
- 5. Hamlet's foil
- 8. What the king fails to do genuinely?
- 9. Scholar who sees the Ghost
- 11. Describing a metaphorical garden
- 13. A colour often associated with mourning in the play
- 16. Unexpected captors of the prince during his voyage
- 17. An epithet Hamlet uses for Polonius
- 21. Hamlet's foil
- 22. Hamlet’s hamartia
- 25. A character's expression of emotion and thought, unheard by other characters
- 26. A type of irony that sees Claudius being killed by his own poison
- 27. Feigned or real, a state affecting several characters
- 28. Cause of King Hamlet's death
- 29. Polonius uses this twice
Down
- 2. A theme underlying the queen's remarriage
- 3. Surprisingly present in a revenge tragedy?
- 4. A play that’s "the thing" to catch a king
- 6. Comment made to the audience
- 7. Climactic physical conflict involving foils
- 10. A device often used to express excessive meaning
- 12. "O, what a ___ mind is here o'erthrown!"
- 14. Might convey love, or an order, or be intercepted
- 15. Where the ghost claims to reside
- 18. Clownish characters
- 19. A motive driving many in this tragedy
- 20. "Sometime sister, now our queen"
- 23. Foppish courtier, bearer of the duel challenge
- 24. University where the scholar prince studied