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'Frailty, thy name is woman!' is uttered by Hamlet in reference to:
AThe Player Queen
BOphelia
CHis mother Gertrude
DAll women
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. His mother Gertrude
1. The line appears in Act I, Scene II during Hamlet's first soliloquy.
2. He is bitterly responding to Gertrude's hasty remarriage to Claudius.
3. Although the abstraction is 'woman,' the immediate referent is his mother.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #1524 — Shakespeare's Hamlet — "Frailty, thy name is woman!"_
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