Women and sex

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“incestuous sheets”

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 2

“This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property leads itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings”

Polonius

Act 2 Scene 1

“I have a daughter – have while she is mine”

Polonius

Act 2 Scene 2

“I shall obey you.”

Gertrude

Act 3 Scene 1

“Get thee to a nunnery!”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 1

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

Gertrude

Act 3 Scene 2

“How now, a rat?”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 4

“Nay, but to live/ In the rank sweat of an enseaméd med, / Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love / Over the nasty sty”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 4