Character epithets

• ghost

  'this apparition' 1:1
• horatio

  'thou art a scholar' 1:1
• norway

  'ambitious norway' 1:1
• fortinbras

  'young fortinbras, hot and full' 1:1
• hamlet

  'cousin hamlet' 1:2
• King hamlet

  'nobel father' 1:2
• Claudius

  'a hyperion [king hamlet] to a satyr' 1:2
• Ghost

  'a figure like your father' 1:2
• ophelia

  'green girl' 1:3
• ghost

  'be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned' 1:4
• king hamlet

  'king, father, royal dane' 1:4
• hamlet

  'my lord' reoccuring
• ghost

  'poor ghost' 1:4
• claudius 


  'imcestuous, adulterate beast' 1:5
• claudius 


  'o villain, villain, smiling damned villain' 1:5
• hamlets madness

  'crafty madness' 3:1
• gertrude

  'sweet gertrude' 3:1
• ophelia

  'nymph' 3:1
• claudius

  'bloat king' 3:4
• polonius

  'the guts' 3:4
• hamlets madness

  'brainish apprehension' 4:1
• hamlet

  'mad young man' 4:1
• rosencrantz

  'a sponge' 4:2
• hamlet

  'i hamlet the dane' 5:1
• hamlet

  'a noble heart' 5:2
• hamlet

  'sweet prince' 5:2