Hamlet

on the ship to england, hamlet changes it round, so rosencrance and guildstern get killed instead of him.

"And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leprous distillment." So, yes.

In Greek myth Laertes married Anticlia and had a son, Odysseus.

Hamlet Act III Scene 1 Hamlet, as usual, is unable to make a decision - this time about whether to kill himself or not - To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know naught of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

The skull belonged to Hamlet's late friend Yorick, a court jester.

"'Tis a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance." Which means that the Danes would get more honour by not doing it than by doing it. But really, the fact that Claudius favours this custom is probably the main reason Hamlet is against it.

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Actually in Acts I and II of Hamlet, Claudius seems like a perfectly reasonable guy. In Act I he gives Hamlet some pretty reasonable advice about not mourning too much, names him the heir to the throne, is courteous, wise and decisive--an excellent king. In Act II we see him trying to make enquiries into the reasons for Hamlet's "transformation" as he calls it, while hearing of the success of his diplomatic solution to the Fortinbras problem. In all things he appears the good king and concerned stepfather.

Who astonishes Ophelia by pulling at her and gazing into her face

The type of play that uses exaggerated characters and broad humor is called a farce. Hamlet is not a farce, it is a tragedy.

No, or at least he doesn't want to think so. His line, "I tell thee, churlish priest, a ministering angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling." suggests that Laertes believed that Ophelia died free of sin.

• It is a comedic interlude, a bit of light hearted fun to break up the heavy tragic scenes
• It's a bit of a dig at Shakespeare's clown- he was fired from the company just before hamlet was written and so Shakespeare includes the skull of a clown (jester)
• Has darker undertones- highlights the frailty of life

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There is a "play within a play" in Hamlet, called The Murder of Gonzago, it is often confused by The Mousetrap, but if you see the words The Mousetrap it will actually be The Murder of Gonzago

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In Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet, both Laertes and Polonius advise Ophelia to stop seeing Hamlet, in their own ways. Laertes, as Ophelia's brother, gives the explanation that Hamlet, as heir to the throne of Denmark, must ultimately do what benefits the country. That means that though he may love Ophelia now, he will never be able to marry her because she is not of royal blood so it would not reflect well on the country, and because Denmark must come first, their relationship is doomed to end. Laertes says that Hamlet's affections for Ophelia are essentially flirtation and are going nowhere. (Of course he is dead wrong about Ophelia's chances of marrying Hamlet. At her funeral Gertrude says "I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife.")

Polonius, Ophelia's father, gives the same advice for a different reason. He basically says that Hamlet is a young guy and offers her affection because he wants her, not because he loves her. He advises that Ophelia should stop seeing Hamlet because what she thinks is love is simply lust.

Do I like 'Hamlet'? As in the play? In which case, yes, I love it. I think it possibly the greatest story or play written EVER. But if you mean to I like the character of Hamlet then I would have to say that most of the time he doesn't appeal to me - he is a coward.

He did not. The ghost is only heard by Hamlet but Bernardo, Marcellus and Horatio see it. This is a clue to us that the ghost is not just a figment of Hamlet's imagination. Gertrude, however, cannot see or hear the ghost even when it is present in the same room. This suggests that the ghost can appear to anyone if that suits its purpose; it is important to be seen by the guards so they will bring it to Hamlet's attention, but also important that he not be seen to be involved by his widow. But the real reason, as ever in a Shakespeare play, is dramatic. The scenes where the ghost appears to the guards is a dramatic scene good for opening the play, and the fact that they have seen the ghost allows for a number of wonderful scenes: Horatio's description of the ghost in 1,2, the attempts by Horatio to hold Hamlet back in 1,3, and Hamlet's insistence that they swear an oath of secrecy. All of this would be lost if the Ghost was visible only to Hamlet. But in Act 3, the scene is between Hamlet and Gertrude, and the ghost is a minor distraction. Having him appear to Gertrude would necessitate some kind of confrontation between them, and the scene would become one between Gertrude and the Ghost and Hamlet would be superfluous. Since such a scene is not necessary to the plot (Hamlet will convince Gertrude of Claudius's guilt without the help of the ghost), Shakespeare wisely avoided it.

The play within the play - the enactment by the players of "The Murder of Gonzago," with additions by Hamlet.

there are over all eleven soliloquies in hamlet

In Shakespeare's day, people did not make a big deal out of prémieres of plays. We know, because a guy called Philip Henslowe wrote it down in his diary, that a new play was prémiered by every theatrical company about once every two weeks. But apart from Henslowe's diary, there is no record of when any plays were first performed. We can only guess that one of the early performances we know about might have been the first.

In the case of Hamlet, it was first performed sometime around 1601, certainly before 1603 when it was first published. The first performance was probably at the Globe Playhouse.

According to the report that the Ghost gives Prince Hamlet, Claudius, the king's brother, poured poison in his brother's ear as the king was sleeping in his garden, and then spread the word that King Hamlet was bitten by a snake.

I think he was afraid Hamlet was going to find out that Claudius killed Hamlet's father.

Hamlet's true nature isn't shown often in the play, as he puts on a guise of madness throughout. However this is a moment where we see how truly egocentric Hamlet is. He can not stand the idea that another could be recognized for loving Ophelia as much as he; thus he takes it upon himself to out do Laertes.