An eavesdropper is stabbed behind a tapestry in the closet of this character, who is denounced with the phrase, "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
This character has "a talent for seeing the essence of every situation" according to an essay that challenges J. Dover Wilson's "very dull and very shallow" interpretation. This character is "so negative and insignificant that she arouses" "disgust" that "envelops and exceeds her," according to a Carolyn Heilbrun essay. After being accused of "honeying and making love / Over the nasty sty" with "A cutpurse of the empire and the rule," this character begs, "O, speak to me no more; / These words, like daggers, enter into mine ears." She pronounces a man to be "mad as the sea and wind" for crying "'A rat! A rat!"' and urges another character to "speak to me no more!" during the "closet scene". An eavesdropper is stabbed behind a tapestry in the closet of this character, who is denounced with the phrase, "Frailty, thy name is woman!" For 10 points, name this character whom Freud cast as the object of Hamlet's Oedipal desire.
This character has "a talent for seeing the essence of every situation" according to an essay that challenges J. Dover Wilson's "very dull and very shallow" interpretation.
Queen Gertrude [prompt on "the Queen"]