Hamlet

He interprets Claudius's action during the play as confirming the ghost's story. This is not something he sees so much as something he comes to believe. What he sees is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern telling him to go see his mother.

No. He is of the view that Hamlet will have a bride chosen for him, probably some woman of royal blood. He wouldn't be able to marry Ophelia even if he wanted to. (Ironically, Gertrude later reveals that she had intended that Hamlet should marry Ophelia, so Laertes was wrong.)

By sheer luck and nosiness. The nosiness comes in because he decides to have a look at Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's sealed orders, and finds that they are instructions to the English to execute him. Fortunately he has the equipment and skill to forge a new set of orders in which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern go to the chop in his place. He is also extremely lucky in that pirates attack and he ends up on the pirate ship, and the pirates agree to return him to Denmark.

Hamlet finds Claudius praying for forgiveness after the play. He decides that if he were to kill Claudius at that moment, Claudius would go to heaven rather than to hell. Hamlet decides to wait until he finds Claudius sinning, in order to kill him.

An example of a homonyms by Shakespeare is when Romeo and Mercutio are at the Capulet ball. Romeo says that Mercutio has a nimble sole, but that his own soul is heavy.

Somewhere around half of Shakespeare's plays were written after Julius Caesar. We cannot say which one was immediately afterwards, because we have no hard evidence of which plays were written when. Henry V is a possibility, although many scholars would reverse the plays and have Caesar follow Henry.

In Shakespeare's "Hamlet", The Ghost demands Hamlet kill Claudius, the brother who betrayed, murdered and stole his throne and wife. However, this murderous vengeance does not extend to his offending wife. He tells Hamlet not to seek vengeance on her and to just focus on dealing with the usurper.

If you ask me, it's just because Hamlet is a natural born jack-@$$. Some people will try to defend him by pointing out that he has a reason to be angry about Ophelia's spying and is venting his frustrations; but honestly, what he says is extremely harsh. When I was reading it, I was surprised to see in the annotations that nunnery was a euphemism for brothel. I mean, ouch! Your father's just died, the prince who's been pursuing you has apparently gone crazy, and then he basically just snaps at you that you are trash and belong in a brothel. That's just cruel.

Fortinbras is the son of the former king of Norway. His father died at the hand of Hamlet Sr (Hamlet's father). His uncle took the throne, however it is said that he is on his death bed. Fortinbras is said to be mounting an army throughout the play in order to take back the land his father lost to Denmark.

At the end of the play, just before Hamlet dies he announces Fortinbras to be the new king of Denmark.

The main reason is that he kills Polonius and generally acts crazy. It is also likely that the king is also trying to get rid of him for his own purposes. When Hamlet stages his play "The Mousetrap" he reveals that he knows about the king killing Hamlet's father.

Claudius banishes him to England (with a letter asking the English to execute him) so that he doesn't have to kill Hamlet in Denmark, where he is very popular.

I think the psychological climax is in the last scene of the play. Throughout the play, Hamlet has struggled with himself about his reaction to the Ghost's revelations and command to take revenge on King Claudius; he has called himself a coward, passed up a chance to kill the King, and blamed himself for not being decisive. But in the last scene, after having a premonition that the fencing match with Laertes might mean his death, Hamlet seems suddenly to achieve a kind of serenity. He says to Horatio: we defy augury: there's a special

providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,

'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be

now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the

readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he

leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. (5.2.219-224)

They sympathise with him; they understand his torment, his dilemma and they feel extremely sorry when he dies. Some people can also judge him more severely for his hesitations and for the pain he causes to the people he loves and who love him.

His brother, Claudius, came out into the garden while King Hamlet was sleeping and poured poison into his ear.

I guess you could say that Hamlet's first attempt to kill Claudius was when he stabbed Polonius, since he says "I took thee for thy better." At that time Claudius was probably still downstairs somewhere.

"Osric did not "get" Hamlet and Laertes to fight. He stood by as a referee in the duel between the two adversaries. He called out the "hits". They duelled because Laertes believed that Hamlet was responsible for the death of his sister Ophelia and wished to avenge it. This belief had been fostered by Claudius who saw a way of having Hamlet killed as he knew that Claudius had murdered his - Hamlet's - father."

This is almost correct. Indeed Osric was not the cause of Hamlet and Laertes duel, the King was the one who came up with this idea because he found it the easiest way to have Hamlet killed without the suspect of foul play. But Laertes agreed to the duel not only because he believed Hamlet's madness caused Ophelia to also go mad ultimately killing her, he also dueled because of Hamlet's cold blooded murder of his father Polonius...just wanted to add that Polonius had two reasons for wanting to duel Hamlet.

The word you are looking for is probably "soliloquy", although this word does not define all of the Famous Speeches Hamlet gives. It does define "O that this too too solid flesh would melt", "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I", "To be or not to be, that is the question", "Now is the very witching hour of night", and "How all occasions inform against me". But it does not describe what is probably Hamlet's second-most famous speech, "Alas! Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" which is of course part of a conversation with Horatio, or the very famous "What a piece of work is man" speech he gives to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Probably you are thinking of the word "soliloquy" which means a speech by a character which is not intended to be heard by any other characters on stage. A soliloquy might be thought of as an extended aside.

Hamlet asks Horatio to observe Claudius.

Hamlet is debating with himself throughout all of his soliloquies. Avenging his father is his purpose in life, but not killing Claudius when he could shows that he has a conscience. It shows that he is a tragic hero. These debates with himself humanize him and demonstrate that even though he eventually turns truly mad, there is still that great man inside him.

No.

The players enable a number of things:

1. It makes the audience, who were fans of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy which also contained a play within a play, feel that they were on familiar ground.

2. It gives Hamlet an opportunity to comment of the state of theatre in England at the time.

3. It helps the plot along by giving Hamlet a device to test Claudius's guilt.

4. It enables Shakespeare to contrast the formal and stilted language of The Murder of Gonzago with the more natural language of Shakespeare's play.

5. It provides a device where the characters reveal a great deal about themselves while commenting on the play they are watching.

When you say, "the former Hamlet" you mean the late King Hamlet, right? She remembers him briefly in the play-within-a-play scene ("Nay, it is twice two months, my lord.") in which Hamlet uses her as a straight man to set up his cutting remarks to his mother, "What? Two months dead and not forgotten already?"