"Who's there?"
"Nay, answer me; stand and unfold yourself"
The symbolic reasoning for the first lines of Hamlet being "Who's there?" points to the constant themes found throughout the play of hypocrites, spying, fear of the unknown and hysteria.
Ophelia, who drowns (maybe a suicide as she is mad and so falls into the water). She is mad out of grief for her father polonius, who Hamlet killed accidentally.
Polonius has just asked Hamlet what he is reading. Of course what he wants Hamlet to say is the name of the book. But just to be irritating Hamlet responds "Words, words, words."
First Folio: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke First Quarto: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Second Quarto: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (first page) and The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (title page) Third Quarto: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (first page) and The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (title page)
Two different good versions of 'Hamlet' were printed, first in 1604-5, and then in 1623. They're not identical. They have different numbers of words. So it's impossible to give an exact answer. It depends on which of the original printings you mean.
Hamlet stabbed him with the poisoned sword which Laertes had poisoned to kill Hamlet. He was, in Hamlet's phrase, "hoist with his own petard."
As Hamlet says, "words, words, words".
The longest play is Hamlet, which is the only Shakespeare play with more than thirty thousand words
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Hamlet says it to himself in the play: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
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Hamlet. It's Shakespeare's longest play, and Hamlet talks for 37% of it.
The play is Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. These are the first words in Hamlet's famous monologue, in which he contemplates suicide.
It is a line from William Shakespeares Hamlet. Most of William Shakespeares plays are still famous now as he is regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language.
His son's name was Hamnet, which sounds like Hamlet.
These are the first six words of a speech Hamlet makes in Act 3 Scene 1 of the play.