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Are rosencrantz and guildenstern called dummies and pupets in Hamlet?
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Well, not in so many words, although they are good words to describe them. Hamlet calls Rosencrantz a sponge in IV, 2. He also calls them adders in III, 4.
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What is the name the Shakespeare play about the Prince of Denmark?
the play is called Hamlet and was writing by William Shakespeare.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
What happens in the play-within-a-play in hamlet?
It is called "The Murder of Gonzago" or "The Mousetrap" and depicts the murder of a king, whose widow then marries the murderer. Sound familiar?
How is ophelia an allusion to hamlet?
The character of Hamlet's girlfriend who goes crazy is called Ophelia. It's Greek for help.
Who is king Hamlet in the short story Hamlet?
There is no such thing as a short story called Hamlet. There is a play by this name, but plays are not the same thing as short stories.
What is the author of a play called?
Hamlet.
How does Hamlet show his complete contempt for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are old schoolfriends of Hamlet's are called upon by the king to spy on Hamlet in order to find out what is bothering him. Hamlet, however, figures out why they are there, gets them to confess it and tells them what he guesses to be their business. He then lets out some vague and quite misleading hints as to what is on his mind (the "what a piece of work is man" speech.)
How do Rosencracrantz and Guildenstern analyze Hamlet's malady?
They don't. They try to get him to say that what is troubling him is that he wants to be the king, but he doesn't follow through in the way that they hope. In act 2 scene 2 Rosencrantz responds to Hamlet's statement that Denmark is a prison tohim by saying "Why, then, your ambition makes it one." and when Hamlet ends his reply by saying "were it not that I have bad dreams", Guildenstern follows up by saying "Which dreams indeed are ambition . . ." Possibly Hamlet catches on from this clumsy attempt that Ros and Guil are spies, which he accuses them of soon after. In any event, in their report to the King and Queen at the beginning of 3,1 they cannot point to any reason for Hamlet's behaviour. Rosencrantz says "He does confess he feels himself distracted, but from what cause he will be no means speak." They tactfully do not tell Claudius that Hamlet sussed them out as spies.
How can you rewrite the part of Rosencrantz in the play Hamlet in your own words?
It's called paraphrasing. Take a line that Rosencrantz says, then ask yourself, "What is he getting at? What does he mean?". You then take your answer and put those words into Rosencrantz's mouth.
In what country would you find Hamlet?
Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark (that's a country in Northern Europe, between Germany and Sweden), because his father, also called Hamlet, was the king. However, when Hamlet was away at University in Wittemberg, his father died, and before he got back, his uncle Claudius had proclaimed himself king and had married Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet gets back to find that the country is preparing for war, and some of his buddies have seen a ghost looking like his father stalking the battlements of the castle. For the rest of the story, watch the play.
What is the turning point in act 3 in hamlet?
The first is the play scene, which the King reveals himself as a murderer. The second is the present scene, in which Hamlet fails to kill Claudius. The third is the killing of Polonius in the next scene.
How many characters are in the play hamlet?
Hamlet Ophelia Rosencratz and Guildenstern Gertrude Claudius Laertes Polonius Pretty much all the main characters die aside from Horatio and Fortinbras. Technically 10 characters die in Hamlet. In order they go Yorick (the jester), King Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius, then Hamlet.
What is Hamlet based on?
Hamlet is ultimately based on the story of Amleth, which is found in a medieval Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus. Although called a history, the Amleth story, as recorded by Saxo, certainly contains more myth and legend than fact.Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Saxo's Amleth, are quite different in important respects, but the story lines are roughly similar, and Hamlet has a number of incidental details that appeared earlier in 'Amleth.'A French writer, Francois de Belleforest, translated Saxo's story of Amleth into French in 1570, and it probably entered English cultural consciousness via that French translation.There is a reference from 1589 to an English stage version of Hamlet, although it's very doubtful that play was the same one we have now. The earlier 'Hamlet' (called ur-Hamlet) is traditionally ascribed to Thomas Kyd, although some scholars have opined it might have been by Shakespeare.The best guess seems to be that Shakespeare's company obtained the earlier English 'Hamlet', in the mid-1590's, and Shakespeare then reworked it, to make it into the play we have now, as published in the Second Quarto of 1604-1605, and later in the First Folio of 1623.So, according to current thinking, Hamlet probably developed by way of the following path:Saxo's Amleth - >Belleforest's translation ->An English play by Kyd - >Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Isthere a book called acne for dummies?
There is an ebook called Acne for Dummies, authored by M.D. Herbert P. Goodheart.
What is a village with out a church called?
its called umm idont no
Murder and suicide feature prominently in both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. what are 3-5 comparisons answering this?
In Hamlet, a number of people are deliberately murdered: Hamlet Sr., Polonius, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In the last scene, Claudius and Hamlet are deliberately murdered, Gertrude is accidentally killed by a murder attempt. Laertes is killed by accident. In all these cases, the victim had no chance--it was not a fair fight. Hamlet Sr. was asleep, Polonius was unarmed behind a curtain, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are judicially murdered, Claudius is unarmed and Hamlet had his back turned. In Romeo and Juliet, nobody gets murdered, except maybe Mercutio. Murder does not "feature prominently" in this play. Mercutio is killed by accident because the well-meaning Romeo impaired his ability to fight. In most stagings Tybalt did not intend to kill him, but his sword went astray in the scuffle. (It could be played the other way as well). Romeo kills Tybalt in a fair fight ("Either you or I or both must go with him!"). He also kills Paris in a fair fight after trying to avoid it. Neither of these could be called murder. Of course, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide, that is clear. But in Hamlet, the only person who might be said to have committed suicide was Ophelia, and even in her case there is uncertainty--"Her death was doubtful". It could, if we accept Gertrude's account of it, have been an accident. Ophelia was clearly not it her right mind and was not in a position to make a decision to kill herself anyway. Hamlet talks about suicide, of course, and so do the gravediggers, but in both cases the discussion is rather hypothetical. Hamlet comes to the conclusion that suicide is not for him because "the Everlasting" has "fix'd his canon 'gainst self slaughter", and concludes that it is not popular among the others who "grunt and sweat under a weary life" because of "the dread of something after death". There's a big difference between Hamlet's palaver and "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath!"
What is the castle called in Hamlet?
The castle which Hamlet takes place in is called "Elsinore".
What elected officials in senate called?
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