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Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama — Quiz

Question 5 • English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from the play within a play in Act III of Hamlet . Player Queen: O! confound the rest; Such love must needs be treason in my breast: In second husband let me be accurst; None wed the second but who kill’d the first. Hamlet: [Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood. Player Queen: The instances that second marriage move, Are base respects of thrift, but none of love; A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses me in bed. This excerpt best supports the claim that Hamlet

Answer
A
treats women unkindly.
B
suspects his mother will kill Claudius.
C
does not believe in true love.
D
is critical of his mother’s choices.
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