What do Claudius and Gertrude want Hamlet to do that he doesn't want to do? What do Claudius and Gertrude want Hamlet to do that he doesn't want to do?
I believe that he is speaking about Hamlet Senior and his recent death, that it is fresh.
The speech that Hamlet gives to the players means don't over act. The speech is given in Act 3 Scene 2 of the play.
When you say, "the former Hamlet" you mean the late King Hamlet, right? She remembers him briefly in the play-within-a-play scene ("Nay, it is twice two months, my lord.") in which Hamlet uses her as a straight man to set up his cutting remarks to his mother, "What? Two months dead and not forgotten already?"
Telephone.
Hamlet says this in Act I Scene 4 of Hamlet. He is talking to the ghost of his father who up to this point hasn't said a word. Hamlet is trying to figure out how to address him in order to make him speak. If he calls him by his name, Hamlet, will he respond? How about father? King? Royal Dane? Whatever he says, the ghost starts talking right away.
the hamlet
You mean William Shakespeare's Hamlet? It was written around 1600.
This expression does not occur in Shakespeare's Hamlet anywhere.
do you mean who made the voices, or what they were made by?
Black Hamlet
the 'smell' is alluding to something wrong, not an actual odor- Ex- when you smell something fishy going on- it doesn't actually mean you smell flounder Hamlet quotes- "There is something rotten in the state of Denmark" "The old chief will wear his feathers, ride his pony and eat his corn when you smell the flowers that they put on your grave"
This is from Hamlet. What it means is that Hamlet suspected his father was murdered. Which he was, but at that stage he didnt know this.