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.

Hamlet wonders if anyone will still love him after he has died right after he does his speech to Yorick's skull and ponders what happens after death. "Hamlet" is a play by William Shakespeare.

Indeed! Ophelia is being given a shortened funeral service out of suspicion that she killed herself. Someone who kills herself died in a state of sin, since suicide is a sin and there was no opportunity to be forgiven, and so she really shouldn't even be buried on holy ground. Someone's pulled some strings behind the scenes, so the priest is compromising by giving her a lackluster funeral. Laertes is upset at this disrespect toward his sister, just as he was upset that his father wasn't mourned with more pomp.

The ghost charges Hamlet to perform a three-part task. He is asked to: 1. Revenge the murder of his father. 2. Hamlet is also not to contrive against his mother but to leave her to heaven and her own conscience. 3. Don't go insane during the task

everyone was responsible for their own death...

Hamlet delays his desicions because he is simply an indescisive person. Hamlet is trying to choose between his education, what he knows, and the warlike royal traditions, the evil aspects of avenging his father. He is obviously depressed and doesnt like the idea of murdering King Claudius, because as a Christian, murder is morally wrong. He wants to make sure Claudius is the right man to be punished and the preparations for the play within the play are even more delayed because of hamlets Antic disposition.

He appears three times, in four different scenes. First he appears to Marcellus, Bernardo and Horatio in Act one Scene 1. He later appears to them with Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 4. Hamlet follows the ghost offstage then reappears chasing him in Act 1 Scene 5. The two scenes are part of the same appearance. Finally, the ghost appears briefly in the closet scene, Act 3 Scene 4.

On the contrary, he says he will speak daggers to her but not use them.

Yes, she tells him (somewhat reluctantly) that Hamlet has "made tenders of his affection" to her in Act 1 Scene 3. In Act 2 scene 1 she tells him that Hamlet has appeared in her bedroom half undressed and has stared at her very intently in a weird way.

Good Hamlet cast thy nighted colour off and look like a friend upon Denmark. Do not forever with thy veiled lids seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.

Which one might paraphrase as:

My dear Hamlet, stop wearing these black clothes, and be friendly to the king. You can't spend your whole life with your eyes to the ground remembering your noble father. It happens all the time, what lives must die eventually, passing to eternity.

Yes, lots. It starts at about line 10 of the first scene when Barnardo asks, "Have you had aquiet guard" and Francisco replies "Not a mouse stirring". It ends around line 400 of the last scene when Fortinbras says, "and for his passage the soldiers' music and the rite of war speak loudly for him."