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What does the “Messenger from Go’d Throne” do in Canto IX?

 Describe the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following lines from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): It is here, Hamlet; Hamlet thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed: the foul practice Hath turned itself on me; lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: thy mother’s poisoned: I can no more: the king, the king’s to blame.

What does Dante do to Bocca degli Abati in Canto XXII to try and get him to reveal his name? 

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quote from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): To be, or not to be:  that is the question Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.  To die; to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, . . .

What is this play called, according to Hamlet?

What scene–from literature that we’ve read this semester–does Hamlet recall from memory?

Why is Hamlet so angry with his mother in Act I Scene 2?

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quote from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): The spirit that I have seenMay be the devil, and the devil hath powerT’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,Out of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spirits,Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds More relative than this. The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

 Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following lines from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences):  Thus was I sleeping by a brother’s hand, Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,                         (without final sacrament; unprepared) No reck’ning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head; O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!

Which best describes the souls Dante encounters in Canto III in the Vestibule of Hell?