| PRINCEOFDENMARK | Shakespeare's Hamlet's title (6,2,7) |
| PRINCE | Hamlet's title |
| SLINGSANDARROWS | Quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, ' Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the - of outrageous fortune' (6,3,6) |
| SAXOGRAMMATICUS | 12th-century Danish historian whose Gesta Danorum was a source for Shakespeare's Hamlet (4,11) |
| OPHELIA | The Band's title song lady; or, a noblewoman in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| UNCLE | Claudius was this relation to the title character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet (5) |
| LAERTES | Son of Polonius who stabs the title character in Shakespeare's Hamlet (7) |
| ELSINORE | Setting for Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| OSRIC | Courtier in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| YORICK | Dead jester in Shakespeare's Hamlet (6) |
| HORATIO | Character in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' (7) |
| ELSUNORE | Danish castle, site of Shakespeare's Hamlet (8) |
| POLONIUS | Character in Shakespeare's Hamlet (8) |
| GERTRUDE | 'Seeming virtuous queen' who is the mother of Shakespeare's Hamlet (8) |
| BREVITY | The soul of wit, according to Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| FORTINBRAS | Norwegian crown prince with a few brief scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| MARCELLUS | The most prominent of the three sentries at Elsinore in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| VIOLETS | Containing ionone esteemed in perfumery, wild flowers mentioned in a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet whose name is suggestive of their colour (7) |
| LAERTEU | Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet 1601 |
| BODKINS | Word in Shakespeare's Hamlet for small daggers; or, blunt needles for threading elastic, ribbon or tape (7) |
