Hamlet

To be killed "no shriving time allowed.", which means without the chance to confess and be forgiven for their sins. In other words, they get the same treatment as Hamlet Sr.

Claudius was elected King instead of Hamlet. Denmark in the play does not have primogeniture (automatic succession of the eldest son.)

There's nothing in the play that explicitly identifies why the electors chose Claudius. Interpretation is required on that point.

Gertrude's influence was undoubtedly important, since she had been Queen for so long. Her marriage to Claudius was an obvious endorsement of Claudius. It's clear enough that Gertrude married Claudius before the election.

polonius and reynaldo seemed to use the idea of following others around and being clever and well thought in their methods, so it would seem that polonius is one suspicion and mistrustful of even his own son.

Yes, hamlet is one of his most famous plays. to be or not to be? that is the question. ;p

"I shall put an antic disposition on." He's going to pretend to be crazy.

He says this:

Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;

We'll put the matter to the present push.

In other words, he says, "Remember what we talked about last night. You'll get your chance soon."

This is Ophelia's madscene. It establishes that Ophelia has gone over the edge but also has the more important action in which Laertes confronts Claudius, and is persuaded by him to take his revenge against the person who really killed Polonius, which would be Hamlet. This scene provides the basis on which the final denouement is based.

Avenge his death

It is unsure whether she died purposely by her own hand or by accident, Ophelia was sitting in a tree looking at a flower, when a branch struck her on the head and she fell out of the tree. She fell into the river, where she did not scream, but sing until she died.

Hamlet doubts the ghost's statement that Claudius had murdered him--the ghost could be lying. He re-enacts the murder in a play and has it performed in front of Claudius. Sure enough, it causes an attack of conscience in Claudius.

Hamlet asks Ros and Guil this question in the play. Companies of actors did not like to travel; their makeshift theatres in small country towns could not hold the audiences the city theatres could, and the towns did not have enough people to supply such audiences. Therefore revenues were down, and costs (which included the costs of transport for the actors, their costumes and props) were up. Many theatre companies went broke by doing it. Hamlet sums this up by saying "Their residence, both in
reputation and profit, was better both ways". Rosencrantz says that it is because of the new innovation which is stealing their city audiences. Which innovation? Companies of child actors, says Rosencrantz, "an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd for't. These are now the fashion." Shakespeare was alluding to the companies of child actors who were very popular around the turn of the century, especially the Children of the Chapel and the Children of St. Paul's

It's actually an arras that Polonius hides behind.

Both times Polonius hides behind an arras, he does so to eavesdrop on what Hamlet says to somebody else. First, Polonius hides to listen to Hamlet talk to Ophelia, then later, he hides to listen to Hamlet talk to Gertrude.

His father's ghost telling him to avenge his death.

Hamlet's role in Denmark's future is that he leads to the dissolving of the current governing by the deceptive murderer Claudius and his being replaced by Fortinbras who brings peace and stability back to Denmark.

Not entirely. Her account of the killing of Polonius is generally correct, but following the lead Hamlet has given her, she describes him as mad and does not reveal that she knows he is faking. She also does not reveal that she now knows about Claudius's guilt in the death of her first husband.

One of ironies in Hamlet is that Hamlet's father has died because his brother killed this a poison and he showed himself to Hamlet to ask his son to revenge his unfair father's death. And Hamlet wants to revenge his father's death but he is not sure because the ghost who he saw could easily being the devil himself disguised as his dead father.

And he starts to think about this and he says: "To be or not be, there's the dilemma"

and the irony takes place when he decides to pretend to be crazy and find out the truth about his father's suspicious death.

He only could prove his uncle is really guilty, dying not only him. His mother, his uncle, the woman he loved died.

Which declares Hamlet as one of the most greatest written tragedies of the human history and gives us a lesson about the revenge, the death and the family honor and how could this could be lost for a vendetta.

Polonius is about the only friend Claudius had and maybe the faithful guards and courtiers. Though even his allegiance is questionable, as he also would have served Hamlet Sr. similarly. Truly, Claudius does not have any notable friends in the play as most of the major roles are taken by his subordinates and enemies. For instance, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern followed their orders until their doom; however they were really just doing their jobs. It can be argued that Gertrude was Claudius' friend, considering she was his wife. But it is possible that like Polonius, she just shifted loyalties to suit who ever was in the seat of power.

Two different good versions of 'Hamlet' were printed, first in 1604-5, and then in 1623. They're not identical. They have different numbers of words. So it's impossible to give an exact answer. It depends on which of the original printings you mean.

Horatio finds Hamlet asleep in the middle of a dirt road.

You cannot see the ghost hamlet

Hamlet accidentally kills Polonius, the father of his love interest Ophelia and the advisor to King Claudius, Hamlet's deceased father's brother who recently married Hamlet's mother.

Polonius is hiding behind a tapestry in the room of Hamlet's mother Gertrude, planning to eavesdrop on their discussion about Hamlet's apparent madness of late. They all assume it is because Ophelia has broken up with him. However, in reality it is a ploy to keep from arousing suspicion as he plots to kill Claudius, because Hamlet was visited by the ghost of his father telling him that Claudius had murdered him to usurp the throne and instructing Hamlet to avenge his death.

When Hamlet hears a noise behind the tapestry, he assumes it is Claudius and stabs into the curtain, killing Polonius.

This occurs at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 4.

"The King rises." Of course the text is not clear about exactly what Claudius is feeling when he rises. Certainly the representation of his murder of Hamlet Sr. has hit home--we know that from the following scene where he struggles with his guilt. On the one hand Claudius may rise because he is horrified by the memory of his crime, and he is distracted. On the other, Claudius may recognise the play for exactly what it is, may understand exactly what is troubling Hamlet, and rises because he refuses to put up with any more. The first may be called the "Claudius out of control" reading and the latter may be called the "Claudius in control" reading. Either one works.

Public policy, the good of the state, since Hamlet is the heir apparent to the throne.