The players enable a number of things:
1. It makes the audience, who were fans of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy which also contained a play within a play, feel that they were on familiar ground.
2. It gives Hamlet an opportunity to comment of the state of theatre in England at the time.
3. It helps the plot along by giving Hamlet a device to test Claudius's guilt.
4. It enables Shakespeare to contrast the formal and stilted language of The Murder of Gonzago with the more natural language of Shakespeare's play.
5. It provides a device where the characters reveal a great deal about themselves while commenting on the play they are watching.
"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." Hamlet hoes that when seeing "The Murder of Gonzago" King Claudius' conscience will get the best of him and he will betray his guilt.
You must be talking about Hamlet here, as the other plays which have plays within them (Midsummer Night's Dream, Loves Labour's Lost) involve amateur performances. Shakespeare uses the players in Hamlet in a number of ways. First it provides a vehicle for "The Mousetrap", Hamlet's plan to trap Claudius into some kind of admission of guilt. Second it enables Shakespeare to put into Hamlet's mouth a lot of advice which probably reflects Shakespeare's own view of how actors should do their job. Third, it enables Shakespeare to both imitate and parody the laboured style of an earlier generation, as seen in Gorboduc and other similar plays. Fourth, it enables him to develop his characters by their remarks on the play they are watching, using irony and other techniques. Who can forget Gertrude's marvelous ironic line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."?
Claudius plans to send Hamlet to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern bearing a secret death warrant.
Polonius plans to tell Claudius. Polonius believes that it is love that is driving Hamlet insane.
Horatio plans to go meet Hamlet at Elsinore, which he does in Act 1 Scene 2. Horatio plans to meet Hamlet on the battlements, which he does in Act I Scene 4. Horatio plans to meet Hamlet at the play, and does in Act 3 Scene 2. Horatio has no plans to meet Hamlet in England.
They planned to kill prince hamlet with a posioned foil
This line is from Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Prince Hamlet has been told by the ghost of his father, King Hamlet, that Prince Hamlet's uncle, King Claudius, murdered his own brother, King Hamlet. Claudius then married the dead King Hamlet's wife and Prince Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude. Since Hamlet does not know if the ghost is truly his father and telling the truth, he devises a plan that he believes will prove if what the ghost has said is true. Actors have come to perform at Elsinore Castle for King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. Hamlet asks them to use his altered version of the play, in order to "catch the conscience of the King." The alteration tells the story of a Queen whose husband is murdered by poison. The poisoner then woos the Queen with gifts. Though she rejects him for awhile, in the end she accepts his love. Hamlet plans to watch Claudius' reaction to the altered portion of the play, and discern from that response if Claudius is guilty. His fear of King Claudius' power, and his desire to shame his mother, Queen Gertrude, is the reason for Hamlet's indirect method of accusing the King. If Hamlet's plan doesn't work, he will still be free to pursue other possibilities.
Hamlet was going to act crazy until he got an opportunity to revenge himself on Claudius. Not much of a plan, really.
The first plan for killing Hamlet which we know about is to send him to England to deliver orders to the English authorities that they should put Hamlet to death.
He plans to get Hamlet to talk to Ophelia, while he and Claudius are eavesdropping.
He calls Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ( his good friends) to spy on Hamlet
Please rephrase this question. As it stands it sounds like Claudius took a cab downtown to Ernie's Pawnshop to get a loan on a map owned by Hamlet. What other kind of plan did Hamlet have? Hamlet is famous for not making plans, of not thinking out any practical scheme to accomplish his revenge.
He plans to trap Claudius by making him reveal his guilt over killing Hamlet's father.
Claudius plans to send Hamlet to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern bearing a secret death warrant.
Yes, in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," Claudius dies as a result of a deliberate plan of action by Hamlet. Hamlet seeks revenge for his father's murder, which Claudius orchestrated, and plans to kill him. However, the final sequence of events leading to Claudius's death involves a combination of Hamlet's actions and circumstances beyond his control.
In "Hamlet", Polonious devises a plan to test his theory that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia, and since she is ignoring him, he is depressed. He plans to arrange for Hamlet and Ophelia to meet. He will hide close by and ease-drop to determine if he is correct in his assumption.
Polonius plans to tell Claudius. Polonius believes that it is love that is driving Hamlet insane.
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Horatio plans to go meet Hamlet at Elsinore, which he does in Act 1 Scene 2. Horatio plans to meet Hamlet on the battlements, which he does in Act I Scene 4. Horatio plans to meet Hamlet at the play, and does in Act 3 Scene 2. Horatio has no plans to meet Hamlet in England.