His behavior is manic and outrageous. He plunks himself down next to Ophelia, and talks to her in the most coarse and obscene way. He calls out to his mother, yells at the actors "Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?", and keeps up such a running commentary that Ophelia says tartly, "You are as good as a chorus, my lord." If he did not reveal himself in the following scene we might wonder whether Claudius was offended by the picture of his murder of Hamlet Senior or offended by Hamlet's behavior.