Hamlet

Claudius (the king) respects Hamlet as a son in the beginning. He even tells Hamlet that he hopes that he sees him as a father figure. Claudius views Hamlet as a son and hopes to eventually have Hamlet view him as a father.

They are soldiers of the watch. Of course they know who Hamlet is, since he's the prince. Hamlet may not be so sure about them. When they come with Horatio in Act 1 Scene 2, he does not appear to know Bernardo at all. He greets him "Good even sir" when he calls Marcellus by name.

One of the characters in the play Hamlet is called the "First Player", which means he is an actor. He is the "first" player because he is the leader of the actors who have come to visit Elsinore.

As far as we see, this is Horatio. He receives letters directly from the sailors who brought Hamlet back (probably the same pirates who captured him, in fact!) while Claudius and Gertrude get theirs through a relay of messengers. The relevant scene is Act 4, Scene 6.

Because she's crazy (probably). One common interpretation is that she's confessing that she had sex with Hamlet, and another is that with her overprotective family dead, she's delirious with the sexual opportunities that have just opened up. The important thing is that it's very inappropriate, which shows she's not in her right mind.

No I was not. According to the text, killing someone while they are free of sin(like while praying) will allow them to skip purgatory and go straight to heaven. Hamlet Senior (the ghost) did not have this chance to pray before being killed. Because of this, he is stuck in purgatory. Hamlet wants Claudius to have the same result has Hamlet Senior had.

The ironic thing about this scene is that after Hamlet leaves, Claudius says that he unable to truly confess his sins; therefore, if Hamlet would have killed him, Claudius still would have gone to purgatory.

You betcha. "Revenge my most unnatural murder." is what he says.

Polonius, after Gertrude cries out in her closet (private chamber), calls "What, ho! Help!" and Hamlet hears it, thus turning his attention to the spy. Polonius loses his life for it.

Depends on which part of the book... if it's near the beginning, then Hamlet asks them to pay no mind to his crazy behavior which he will fake later on.

wether or not he's giong to kill himself. "To be or not to be, that is the question" Hamlet also has to debate whether or not he will go through with the revenge he is seeking for his father's death, which is to kill Claudius. This is what the whole play is about, revenge. In Act 3, Scene 2, Hamlet makes the players put on a play mimicking what had happened in Denmark (i.e. a murder puts poison in its victim's ear). Hamlet asks Horatio to watch Claudius' expression during the play, and Horatio confirms that Claudius seems uneasy and feels the guilt, as he brings the play to the end. Claudius' reaction confirms Hamlet's decision, and Hamlet knows that he is making the right decision by seeking revenge on Claudius for killing his father.

The ghost, in Act 1 Scene 5.

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Hamlet studied at the University of Wittenberg

She drank poison.

According to line 273, "union" is another word for pearl.

Act 4, Scene 3. Hamlet is being banished from Denmark and sent to England after killing Polonius.

King: So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.

Hamlet: I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for England! Farewell, dear mother.

King: They loving father, Hamlet.

Hamlet: My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother. Come, for England!

Laurence Olivier starred in the 1948 version of Hamlet.

It says something along the lines of "Dear Friends in England, the two men bearing this letter are particularly annoying to the King of Denmark, who would like you, as soon as you read this and without giving them a chance to go to confession, to kill them straight away and send an ambassador back to Denmark confirming it, or we'll send more Vikings your way. Yours sincerely, Claudius King of Denmark."

Hamlet's mother married his uncle (his father's brother) after his father's death.

There is no background on Claudius' rule. He could have very well have been a better king than Hamlet's father. Hamlet was so consumed with hatred, that he did not even kill the king for the people, he killed him for himself. Plus, he left the nation powerless to the invading nation. He was selfish and filled with hatred. If he had a problem with Claudius and his Mother, he should have talked it out with them. Claudius brought in Hamlet's friends to find out what was wrong with him, and all Hamlet did was have them killed. Hamlet was not a tragic hero, he was a villain.

Oh, yes. Hamlet tortures him constantly and gratuitously. "Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?" Hamlet is just doing that to make Polonius look like a fool.

Jack and the Beanstalk is a popular play based on the old child's fairy tale.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do more than one job for the king. The first is to try to draw Hamlet out in conversation, so they can know what is on his mind. Later they accompany Hamlet to England.

What we see of Ophelia in Act II is her scene where she describes Hamlet's visit to her closet in a state of semi-undress. She claims to have been "affrighted" by this visit. It is worth noting that she instantly takes her problem to her father, which tells us something about how dependent she is on him. (He has taken pains to make her that dependent of course.) We hear that she has followed Hamlet's instructions to the letter. One commentator suggested that Hamlet's purpose in entering Ophelia's room in this way was because he was thinking of taking her into his confidence, but after taking a good long look at her he realized that he just couldn't trust her. And he was right; she cannot be trusted to resist her father in even the slightest way. In the 2000 Almereyda film starring Ethan Hawke, Ophelia (Julia Styles) was present when Polonius reads her love-letters to the king, and she makes clear that she had neither wanted him to read them nor certainly to reveal them to the king. Styles's Ophelia was one of the most fragile you can see, but at least she showed some spunk. In other productions, she is not even there: she has turned over her love-letters to her father "in obedience" as Polonius says. In many ways this shows what a dishrag she is.