Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater
Question 2 • OK-English Language Arts 12 A1 – EDGNTY-83861 26-27
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Answer
a
amused that he was able to attend his own mother’s wedding.
d
disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.
g
grateful that his mother did not have to remain a widow for long.
r
resentful that Gertrude and Claudius wasted so much food.