Hamlet

As the soliloquy at that point is indeed speaking about death (Hamlet is contemplating suicide) it suggests that he is talking about the afterlife - from which no one has ever returned - except of course Jesus Christ. (Allegedly mind you...)

"To cut his throat i' the church."

"What are thou that usurpest this time of night together with that fair and warlike form in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march? I charge thee, speak!"

It is an artistic failure.

The population of a hamlet is generally less than the population of a village

The play 'Macbeth' mainly took place in Scotland. It opened near the battlegrounds of Scottish defensive action against traitorous Scots and invading Norwegians. Other specific events happened in the castles of thanes [feudal lords] at Fife and Inverness, the forest called Birnam Wood, and the royal residence at Dunsinane. Additionally, the play included action by the exiled Scots in England.

neptune

The gravedigger (actually the Sexton Clown) thinks Hamlet was sent to England because he was mad.

Here is the relevant dialogue.

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Hamlet: Aye, marry, why was he sent into England?

Sexton Clown: Why? Because he was mad! He shall recover his wits there, or if

he do not, 'tis no great matter there.

Hamlet: Why?

Sexton Clown: 'Twill not be seen in him there; there, the men are as mad

as he.

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At the funeral, Gertrude says "thou should have been my Hamlet's bride." Polonius and Laertes were sure that the King and Queen would not approve a marriage between Hamlet and their sister, but it appears that they were wrong.

The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to some guards.

The guards tell Hamlet who says he will go watch for the ghost.

Laertes, son of Polonius, embarks for France. Polonius tells his daughter Ophelia, who has been flirting with Hamlet (or maybe more, it's not clear), to give him the cold shoulder.

The ghost appears to Hamlet, gets him alone and tells him that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle and the current king, Claudius. Hamlet swears to revenge him then swears the guards to secrecy.

He calls it The Mousetrap although its real name is The Murder of Gonzago. Hamlet's name for it betrays his purpose in selecting it: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."

Claudius comforted the queen after the death of her husband.

Hamlet is trying to prove that Claudius killed his Father. That's why Hamlet sets up the play. Hamlet trys to reenact how he though his Father died and since Claudius felt guilty about killing Hamlets Father he wants to leave the play. That's how Hamlet proves that Claudius is guilty.

Laertes accuses Claudius of killing his father Polonius in Act IV, Scene V.

Only Hamlet hears it speak. Gertrude cannot see it, but Horatio and the guards can. Is it a real thing or is it a trick of the fog on the battlements, which Hamlet sees as the ghost and imagines speaking? Or maybe is it a bit of both?

A half-naked Hamlet bursting into her boudoir.

As a good playwright should do, Shakespeare had different kinds of diction for different characters:

Hamlet is discursive at times but can also be sarcastic, and bitingly bitter (especially when he is talking to women).

Polonius is pointlessly wordy.

Gertrude is terse, a natural foil to Polonius.

Claudius can be flowery when speaking in his official capacity, and is plausible and reasonable as when he speaks to Laertes, but can also be blunt and straightforward.

Laertes is kind of thick; he uses for the most part short blunt sentences and swears a fair bit.

Osric uses flowery language full of the popular slang of the court. Hamlet makes fun of his ephemeral and silly manner of speaking.

The gravediggers have a kind of lower-class diction using contractions and swearing. The First Gravedigger affects the language of learned people with amusing results.

The diction used in the player's speech about Pyrrhus's slaying of Priam consciously uses the kind of rhetorical language used in Latin literature. The speech from The Murder of Gonzago tries to do the same thing, but just ends up being loquatious, resembling the style of old-fashioned English plays based on Latin models, such as Gorboduc.

Hamlet is disposed to believe ill of Claudius. He dislikes him and resents his marriage to his mother. That is why when the Ghost names Claudius as his murderer, Hamlet says "O my prophetic soul!"--he had already suspected as much.

Because we hear Claudius admit his guilt (just before the "To Be or Not to Be" speech and in Claudius's "O my offence is rank" soliloquy) we know that the ghost is telling the truth. Otherwise, it might be plausible to believe that Claudius is innocent, as everyone including Gertrude seems to believe.

Immediately Hamlet is set on the gun platform of Elsinore castle, characterising the tension in Denmark. This night time scene holds more significance to the Elizabethan audience than to the contemporary as the introduction of the Ghost of Old Hamlet ensnares the audience with its supernatural prowess. Certainly the probing question that is the incipit of the play suggests that things are quite right in the State of Denmark and position the audience to feel skewed by what they are witnessing. importantly Hamlet is absent in the first scene, showing that the major characters are only as significant as the minor roles.

A tribe

smaller than that is a camp

The smallest being a single hut/cottage/cabin/house/tent

2nd Sentence- Alas, poor Yorick!

Hamlet- "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"

they all die

patricide

Claudius, the king is Hamlet's major antagonist. He is a shrewd, lustful, conniving king who contrasts sharply with the other male characters in the play. Whereas most of the other important men in Hamlet are preoccupied with ideas of justice, revenge, and moral balance, Claudius is bent upon maintaining his own power. The old King Hamlet was apparently a stern warrior, but Claudius is a corrupt politician whose main weapon is his ability to manipulate others through his skillful use of language. Claudius's speech is compared to poison being poured in the ear-the method he used to murder Hamlet's father. Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of the king. As the play progresses, Claudius's mounting fear of Hamlet's insanity leads him to ever greater self-preoccupation; when Gertrude tells him that Hamlet has killed Polonius, Claudius does not remark that Gertrude might have been in danger, but only that he would have been in danger had he been in the room. He tells Laertes the same thing as he attempts to soothe the young man's anger after his father's death. Claudius is ultimately too crafty for his own good. In Act V, scene ii, rather than allowing Laertes only two methods of killing Hamlet, the sharpened sword and the poison on the blade, Claudius insists on a third, the poisoned goblet. When Gertrude inadvertently drinks the poison and dies, Hamlet is at last able to bring himself to kill Claudius, and the king is felled by his own cowardly

Hamlet was not a romance play it was a tragdety maybe the was love between Ophelia and Hamlet but the is not the main point of the play so i wouldn't call it a romance