When you approach a guard, the guard's job is to challenge you and ask who you are. But the first line of the play "who's there?" are not delivered by the guard on duty. Instead it is delivered by Bernardo, who has come to replace the guard. He knows there's a guard there, because he has come to replace him. So why is he not sure who is there? (We find out later, it's because he's not sure whether it might be a ghost)
In the first two words of the play, Shakespeare tells us that something is not right, just by putting them in the wrong character's mouth.
Immediately Hamlet is set on the gun platform of Elsinore castle, characterising the tension in Denmark. This night time scene holds more significance to the Elizabethan audience than to the contemporary as the introduction of the Ghost of Old Hamlet ensnares the audience with its supernatural prowess. Certainly the probing question that is the incipit of the play suggests that things are quite right in the State of Denmark and position the audience to feel skewed by what they are witnessing. importantly Hamlet is absent in the first scene, showing that the major characters are only as significant as the minor roles.
Yes, he was. See Act 4 Scene 6 for details.
midnight
it IS in the movie. it was maybe on safe mode or something that happened.
Henry his daughter Katharine's hand in marriage (which may be why she is so determined to learn English).
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*grin* Close! The quote is, "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark." It's from Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV, said by Marcellus to Horatio, as he's commenting on the injustice and corruption in the political/royal hierarchy.
Denmark is the second city of denmark situated in the middle of jylland, population about 300.000. Famous for the old city, the grant harbour and the vivid music scene.
Immediately Hamlet is set on the gun platform of Elsinore castle, characterising the tension in Denmark. This night time scene holds more significance to the Elizabethan audience than to the contemporary as the introduction of the Ghost of Old Hamlet ensnares the audience with its supernatural prowess. Certainly the probing question that is the incipit of the play suggests that things are quite right in the State of Denmark and position the audience to feel skewed by what they are witnessing. importantly Hamlet is absent in the first scene, showing that the major characters are only as significant as the minor roles.
The first scene is the party scene, and then it goes on to battle scene, then snow, then the land of sweets.
No scene means something that is done in secret or out of public view. It can also be used to mean something that is done backstage.
Bush The quote is from the play "Hamlet" and the remark is made by Marcellus in Act I, scene iv. Marcellus is one of the guard along the battlements of the castle that has alerted Hamlet to the apparition of his dead father.
the FAO (first attending officer) is first on the scene when called to a crime.
Yes, he was. See Act 4 Scene 6 for details.
opening scene
In Act 1 scene 1 it is apparent from the way Samson and Gregory talk that there is bad blood between the families.
flys are often the first to be seen in a crime scene