Hamlet

Because everyone talks to himself/herself. It's one of the silly habits we do every day like what do I want for dinner today? Chinese noodle or Indian vegetarian meal? It helps to clarify the mind. An interesting scientific research news lately also tells us that talking to ourselves makes us smart. No wonder that Shakespeare gets famous.

Ophelia tells her father polonius that her boyfriend Hamlet has gone insane.

She agrees to her father's charge and will have nothing to do with Hamlet. Polonius has said to her, "I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, have you slander any moment leisure as to give word or talk with the Lord Hamlet." At this point in the play (Act 1 Scene 3), he has not asked her to spy on Hamlet yet.

The story Shakespeare used was probably used in an older play called Hamlet, which was based on a translation by Belleforest of a medieval chronicle by Saxo Grammaticus, all of which are set in Denmark. Being Prince of Denmark was part of Hamlet's traditional character.

Shakespeare did not choose Hamlet to be from Denmark, any more than you would choose George Washington to be an American. That's how they were.

Claudius and King Hamlet were brothers. Gertrude was married to King Hamlet first, and then she married Claudius.

The ghost of king hamlet tells hamlet that Claudius killed him, then hamlet puts on a play in front of the king and everyone else about how a man kills a king then earns the love of the queen. Claudius jumps up and runs out, therefore the ghost spoke the truth and the murder had been confirmed

Well, he actually tells her what not to do--don't sleep with Claudius any more. "Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence."

I can't give you a response unless I know what he is supposed to be responding to. "Thanks Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern" is a response to what those two guys tell him at the beginning of Act III Scene I for example..

The Ghost sets up the situation for Hamlet. He confirms that Claudius is a murderer and commands Hamlet to kill him. Hamlet is game, but spends a lot of time trying to figure out how to do this properly and safely.

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.

In Shakespeare's time, "thing" was slang for a penis. What women have, on the other hand, is "no thing" or "nothing". This puts a different slant on the title of the play "Much Ado about Nothing".

Thus when Hamlet says to Horatio, "The King is a thing", Horatio is somewhat shocked by this lèse majesté and says "A thing, my Lord?". Hamlet pretends to have been using the more innocent meaning of the word by completing it with "of shreds and patches". But we know and Horatio knows what he really meant.

At first, He merely feigns it to plot his revenge on the "smiling damned villain" Claudius. There is a "method in his madness", that is while he works out how he can wreak his vengeance. However, this question appears when he first starts hallucinating within his mother's chambers when he berates her for marrying his uncle. The exact incident is that he is in the middle of berating his mother, when he looks up and "Sees" the ghost of his father, however, his mother does not. This raises the question that is being asked. In short, nobody has proven or disproven is insanity, and it may not be possible to.

Laertes states that he would be willing to cut Hamlet's throat in a church, a divine area. This contrasts with Hamlet's earlier actions in that he wants to avoid murdering Claudius in a holy setting, ensuring that Claudius will not have the opportunity to enter into heaven.

Although, Fortinbras and Hamlet both lose their fathers under very similar circumstances, their reactions are very different. While Hamlet spends most of his time plotting revenge over the outrage of the murder of his father, Fortinbras goes proactive, raises an army and avenges his fatherâ??s death immediately.

Nobody knows. The very first performances of a play caled Hamlet were not at the Globe Theater, however, which we know because references to Hamlet are found from a time before the Globe Theater existed. These may have been references to an earlier play by the same name, however.

Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern.

Personal note: I have met the actor who played one of these roles in the original stage production.

Ophelia is in love with Hamlet and she may know or suspect that her father's death was an accident. She may also feel that revenge is a man's job, not a woman's, as Beatrice does in Much Ado About Nothing. However, unlike Beatrice and her brother Laertes, Ophelia never shows the slightest inclination towards feelings of revenge.

He says, "I have, of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory." He is, of course, telling them what they want to hear. We know that he has not foregone all custom of exercise at all; later he tells Horatio that he has kept in continual practice. This is part of the antic disposition intended to bamboozle the simple-minded Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Prince Hamlet was created in 1600.

The Ghost wears something different in every production. At least in the first scene, the text suggests that he should be wearing a suit of armour because of Horatio's description of the ghost to Hamlet, that he was armed "from cap a pe", which means from head to foot, and that he wore his beaver (his visor) up. Notwithstanding this, a number of productions do not have the ghost accoutred in this manner, either because suits of armour are expensive and hard to get, or they are clumsy and make it hard for the actor to act, or they don't match the period the director has chosen or any combination of the above.

Hamlet is suicidal because his father, who was very dear to him, had just been murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. Within two short months of his father's murder, Hamlet's mother, Gertrude then married that very same Claudius. This is the main reason as to Hamlet's suicidal tendancies but he is also very mixed up in his head due to encounters with his father's ghost.

Hamlet is from Denmark. The play takes place at the castle of Elsinore and it is implied that this is the permanent residence of the court and the Danish Kings. If so, his home "town" is Elsinore Castle, which isn't a town at all. They talk about "the tragedians of the city" who have left the city to come to Elsinore. The play is vague about where this city is, just as it is about Hamlet's home town, since it doesn't matter to the way the play plays out.