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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Hamlet
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

200

Flourish. [Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, [Voltemand, Cornelius,] Lords Attendant.

2

Hamlet
[I, 2]

Claudius

259

Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?

3

Hamlet
[I, 3]

Laertes

536

O, fear me not!
[Enter Polonius. ]
I stay too long. But here my father comes.
A double blessing is a double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.

4

Hamlet
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

947

Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.

5

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1127

Enter Polonius.

6

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Claudius

1141

Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
[Exit Polonius.]
He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper.

7

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Claudius

1147

Well, we shall sift him.
[Enter Polonius, Voltemand, and Cornelius.]
Welcome, my good friends.
Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?

8

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Rosencrantz

1323

[to Polonius] God save you, sir!

9

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1324

Exit [Polonius].

10

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1462

Enter Polonius.

11

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Hamlet

1606

Follow him, friends. We'll hear a play to-morrow.
[Exeunt Polonius and Players [except the First].]
Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play 'The Murther of
Gonzago'?

12

Hamlet
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1681

Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern,

13

Hamlet
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1747

Exeunt King and Polonius].

14

Hamlet
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1853

Enter King and Polonius.

15

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

1914

O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns
speak no more than is set down for them. For there be of them
that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren
spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary
question of the play be then to be considered. That's villanous
and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go
make you ready.
[Exeunt Players.]
[Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.]
How now, my lord? Will the King hear this piece of work?

16

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

1925

Bid the players make haste, [Exit Polonius.] Will you two
help to hasten them?

17

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Horatio

1967

Well, my lord.
If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
And scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
Sound a flourish. [Enter Trumpets and Kettledrums. Danish
march. [Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern,
and other Lords attendant, with the Guard carrying torches.]

18

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

1980

No, nor mine now. [To Polonius] My lord, you play'd once
i' th' university, you say?

19

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

2242

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You
would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would
pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my
lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music,
excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it
speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a
pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,
you cannot play upon me.
[Enter Polonius.]
God bless you, sir!

20

Hamlet
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

2306

Enter Polonius.