1. Good morning! Find your name to find your seat! Today, we’ll:
Discuss the last words of characters who died in the play (If you were out yesterday, get someone in your group to give you a quick summary). I think you can see Shakespeare’s preferences from these scenes.
Take the student voice survey at 9:25

2. Shakespeare is murderous.
Famous last words
Shakespeare is murderous.

3. Who said it?
“O, I am slain!” (3.4.30).

4. Who is this?
-Sings about death -Last stated words are, “God be/wi’ you” ( ). -Queen Gertrude describes this person’s death in Act 4, scene 7. -Since this character dies off-stage, the audience does not hear her true last words.

5. Who is this?
“No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet!/ The drink, the drink! I am poisoned” ( ).

6. Who is this?
“O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt” ( ). --The word “but” means “only” in this context.

7. Who is this? “He is justly served. It is a poison tempered by himself.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee,
Nor thine on me.” ( ).

8. Who is this?
After getting touched by poison, this character gives and receives forgiveness, avenges his father’s death, predicts and recommends the next king, ensures a friend will tell everyone the truth and stops the same friend from committing suicide. His last words are, “…the rest is silence./O, O, O, O!” ( ).

9. Who is this?
Hamlet alludes to their impending deaths in 5.1, but they do not die on stage. An ambassador comes in to announce their death officially at