What diction is used in hamlet?

Answer 1

As a good playwright should do, Shakespeare had different kinds of diction for different characters:

Hamlet is discursive at times but can also be sarcastic, and bitingly bitter (especially when he is talking to women).

Polonius is pointlessly wordy.

Gertrude is terse, a natural foil to Polonius.

Claudius can be flowery when speaking in his official capacity, and is plausible and reasonable as when he speaks to Laertes, but can also be blunt and straightforward.

Laertes is kind of thick; he uses for the most part short blunt sentences and swears a fair bit.

Osric uses flowery language full of the popular slang of the court. Hamlet makes fun of his ephemeral and silly manner of speaking.

The gravediggers have a kind of lower-class diction using contractions and swearing. The First Gravedigger affects the language of learned people with amusing results.

The diction used in the player's speech about Pyrrhus's slaying of Priam consciously uses the kind of rhetorical language used in Latin literature. The speech from The Murder of Gonzago tries to do the same thing, but just ends up being loquatious, resembling the style of old-fashioned English plays based on Latin models, such as Gorboduc.

Answer 2

Yes! A British accent.