Hamlet
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Sashka247The Ghost, in Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5
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He is not afraid, but the guards are, and they try and hold him back when the ghost tells him to follow him. He understands that...
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Polonius is about the only friend Claudius had and maybe the faithful guards and courtiers. For Instance, Rosencrantz and...
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He does visit the idea in Act 2 Scene 2: "The spirit I have seen may be a devil, and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing...
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a knave being described as a tricky, deceitful person, i would imagine a simpler way of putting it would be that a fool takes a...
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All kinds of theatrical conventions are used in Hamlet, most of which we do not even notice. For example, although the characters...
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It isn't an excuse. It's a doubt. "The spirit I have seen may be the devil, and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape....
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Polonius, Hamlet, Laertes, Gertrude and Claudius all die onstage. Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all die offstage.
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Queen Gertrude, and King Hamlet (deceased) Queen Gertrude then married King Hamlets' Uncle, Claudius.
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because he thought/believed it was king claudius, his uncle
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Hamlet is set in Elsinore, Denmark.
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The king and queen have sent for them to spy on Hamlet.
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If this means, what does Hamlet physically look like, the answer is, he looks like whatever the actor playing him looks like. And...
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upper crust and of course Royalty since he was a prince after all.
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Because she's crazy (probably). One common interpretation is that she's confessing that she had sex with Hamlet, and another is...
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Hamlet sees Laertes acting like a jerk, putting on a big show of grief, with himself the center of attention, instead of being...
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Hamlet is a play by William Shakespeare. The protagonist is Hamlet, who's father is killed by his Uncle, Claudius, the antagonist.
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"Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" I guess that about sums it up.
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The Nymphs were the young beautiful goddesses of nature.The main Nymph was Pan.
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Hamlet is told that his father was murdered by a ghost. In the Elizabethan period ghosts were seen as omens and not to be...
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No, Claudius and Polonius are within hearing range (either onstage or just barely off), if out of sight. Ophelia also is probably...
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Claudius kills Gertrude as she accidentally drinks the poison that Claudius intended for Hamlet.
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They must be brothers...? If not, good friends. They come as a pair throughout the whole play and even the names seem to go...
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While I'm not sure there are 6 definitive elements that make a revenge tragedy, there are some common characteristics that most...
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Lol... Claudius his brother
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"O my prophetic soul!" I guess he wasn't all that surprised.
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yes he has an effection
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A hamlet is a small village, or a play by William Shakespeare.
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I shall have also cause to speak, And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more; But let this same be presently...
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It is hard to say what time period Hamlet is set in. It is based on a legend written down in 1200. Hamlet is sent to England to...
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Well, he is not so indecisive that he does not finish his questions at least. Hamlet sometimes seems indecisive and at others he...
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Hamlet has been produced almost continuously since it was written. At any given time there are dozens of productions of it...
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A suit of armour.
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He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a...
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His very good friend from school Horatio, who's either late for the wedding or very late for the funeral. Horatio tells him about...
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He is Lord Chamberlain. This means he oversees the royal household and is an important advisor to the king. In reality, this is a...
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King Claudius. He's now also his father, sort of. He's a villain.
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Claudius arranged the duel.
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Lamord was French, from Normandy.
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The book Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne makes allusion to Hamlet and Don Quixote.
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The dumb show was a play staged by Hamlet and his players as mousetrap in the Elsinore Castle before King Claudius and his mother...
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He returns after hearing about the death of his father. That's in Act 4.
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He isn't. Oh, he is not innocent, since he did in fact murder his brother in order to steal away his wife. But his administration...
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In Act 3, Scene 1, Claudius and Polonius try to get Hamlet to reveal his private thoughts by setting up a meeting with his...
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He loves and trusts him more than anyone else. He appreciates Horatio's learning and his outsider status in Elsinore. With his...
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King Hamlet won, and thereby got title to Fortinbras's lands.
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Jubilant.
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He asks her not to make love to his stepfather, and not to let on to him that Hamlet is not crazy.
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"The King rises." Of course the text is not clear about exactly what Claudius is feeling when he rises. Certainly the...
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The Ur-Hamlet is the name given to scholars to a hypothetical source for Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Ur-Hamlet is an older play,...
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Because, if Hamlet kills King Claudius while he is "praying" (it turns out he was not praying at all), he would have sent...
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Hamlet calls Horatio "one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing." He does appear to have a very even keel emotionally. His...
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Laertes wants to go to Paris, he's allowed to go to Paris. Hamlet wants to go to Wittenberg, and what he gets is "As for your...
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There are eight individuals who die during the play, two of them offstage : Hamlet himself, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude,...
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Both the protagonists' are the prince of a kingdom - Hamlet's the prince of Denmark and Simba the prince of Pride Lands in...
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They both concluded that his behaviour indicated guilt, and specifically of the crime the Ghost had accused him of.
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you could use it as context for the play hamlet and say how shakespeare drew on the works of authors before his time, while also...
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When he sees them, he says "my excellent good friends!" He is genuinely happy to see his old schoolmates. But it doesn't take him...
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William Bakespeare and John Mccoy have been well known for the phrase "All for ONe and One For All." It is now the motto for...
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Although it isn't explicit in the play, at first Hamlet probably accepts the coroner's verdict of snakebite. After Hamlet hears...
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Hamlet has revealed to Gertrude that he is essentially mad in craft, not mad in actuality. She covers for him by saying that...
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He gets increasingly worried, and eventually orders that the play be stopped partway through. He calls for more light, and leaves...
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He's going to go look into this whole "ghost" business. He'll show up a little before midnight to make sure he gets there in...
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It's called Elsinore in the play. The real-life city is Helsingør, a coastal city and regional capital in eastern Denmark. It...
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to be or not to be The verb to be in this case means to live. Hamlet struggles with the question of living or dying by suicide.
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If we believe Gertrude, she climbed out onto a willow tree (never a good idea) and a branch broke and sent her tumbling into the...
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Within the context of the plot, Hamlet is using the play to portray the murder of his father in the hopes that his uncle will be...
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It is extremely entertaining. Loads of people will pay to go to see it any time. It's got a million memorable lines, witty...
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It is considered the classic tragic love story It penetrates the heart of anyone who has ever been in love like these two crazy...
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There are 4 Scenes in Act 3. A3 s1 is often called the Nunnery Scene. Briefly, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report that they...
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Words. Words. Words. He claims to be reading a description of the aging process. That's probably just to tease the elderly...
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Hamlet's relationships with the characters around him tend to reflect on the existenestial questions so prevalent in...
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Hamlet thinks all kinds of bad things about his mother. He thinks she is disrespectful of her husband ("A beast that wants...
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It's in Germany on the Rier Elbe. The University was founded in 1502 and was famously where Martin Luther studied and where he...
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The only thing that Gertrude says is, "The lady protests too much, methinks," after Hamlet asks her, "Madam, how like you this...
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The tragedy of Hamlet has been around since what is believed to be about 1599. So exactly why has this play been around for so...
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He seems very happy to see both Horatio in Act 1 and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act 2, although he soon figures out that...
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It's generally considered to be the greatest play of all time. (If not the greatest, certainly one of the greatest)
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Because he thinks Claudius will go to Heaven if he kills him right then. As in many of Shakespeare's plays, the characters are...
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To get Hamlet to stop haranguing his mother and get on with killing Claudius.
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Claudius was elected King instead of Hamlet. Denmark in the play does not have primogeniture (automatic succession of the eldest...
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It means that God has a handin everything that goes on, even the death of a pretty little bird. No matter how small or...
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They duel in the final act, Act V.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do more than one job for the king. The first is to try to draw Hamlet out in conversation, so they...
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Good question. Soliloquys are usually reserved for major characters, which is to say, the protagonist and the antagonist. In...
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Because it was so theatrical and overblown. Jumping into her grave, really!
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Claudius (the king) respects Hamlet as a son in the beginning. He even tells Hamlet that he hopes that he sees him as a father...
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I think it's a small, unnamed village.
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He's witty, introspective, gracious, impulsive, intuitive, friendly, conflicted, violent, tolerant, forgiving, charismatic,...
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Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and Julius Caesar.
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He causes them to be killed by inserting their names on the death warrant made for him. In this way they are "hoist on their own...
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This is a misquotation of Gertude's line in Hamlet, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." She is watching a play in which a...
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Eupeithes, the father of Antinous was killed by Laertes in the Odyssey. Hamlet is killed by Laertes in the play Hamlet.
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That is a kind of vague question, There are several characters that can be classified as his "rival" if you are asking who his...
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