# Result number

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

Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."

Line Shows where the line falls within the work.

The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.

1

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

1986

It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. Be
the players ready.

2

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

2073

[aside] Wormwood, wormwood!
Queen. The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
A second time I kill my husband dead
When second husband kisses me in bed.

3

Hamlet
[III, 4]

Hamlet

2416

A bloody deed- almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother.

4

Hamlet
[III, 4]

Gertrude

2418

As kill a king?