Hamlet

The last line of the play is spoken by Fortinbras: Go bid the soldiers shoot.

First, Hamlet is popular and Claudius wouldn't want to start a popular uprising. Second, he doesn't want to cause pain to Gertrude, who he genuinely loves and does not want to hurt.

Shakespeare created the characters of Goneril, Claudius and Cassius as we know them. He did create much more villainous villains than any of these three--Goneril is pretty nasty but Claudius isn't that bad and Cassius is the hero's best friend. What about Iago, Aaron the Moor, or Richard III?

Because Claudius was black and called up his homies to come and pop a cap in hamlets ass

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He doesn't put the play on. The players do, at his suggestion, in Act 3 Scene 2.

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Horatio

His first plan is to send Hamlet off to England along with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. R & G will have orders to have the English execute Hamlet. That doesn't work out, however, so Claudius then proposes to make use of Laertes's desire to avenge his father's death, and have Laertes kill Hamlet. Or if that doesn't work out, Claudius proposes to poison Hamlet.

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He wrote plays and poetry.

The Coram hamlets are not a thing but rather a collection of locations, hamlets in this case, which share the same name. Coran is a relatively popular name and hamlets of that name have been noted in the united states, great Britain, and northern France.

A soliloquy or an internal monologue.

Is it? I would have said it was Polonius's death.

Hamlet versus his girlfriend, Ophelia

Hamlet starts acting mad in Act 1, after he has seen the ghost of his father. He says, "I'll put an antic disposition on."

Most noticeably when he arranges for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death when they were just the messengers. His anger at Ophelia, Gertrude and Polonius may also be seen as misplaced. It is Claudius who he should be angry with. Hamlet is angry with his mother, but his mother had no part in the death of Hamlet's father nor did she know that Claudius had killed him.

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The chronology of Shakespeare's plays is not entirely guesswork. Where a play is published or known to have been performed, we know that it was written before that date. If a play seems to refer to a historical event or matter of topical interest, we know that it was written after that event. Also, a man called Francis Meres wrote a (nearly) complete list of Shakespeare's plays in 1598--plays he didn't mention probably came later.

Romeo and Juliet was first published in 1597, so was written before that. Scholars think about 1595 or 1596.

Julius Caesar was one of the first plays performed at the Globe Theatre. A man called Thomas Platter saw it in September 1599 but it is not on Meres's list. Probably written in 1599 then.

Macbeth appears to refer to the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605. It was first known to be performed in 1611 when a man called Simon Forman went to see it but was probably written when the Gunpowder Plot was still news, around 1606.

Hamlet was first published in 1603 and was registered for publication in 1602. The reference to child acting companies seems to be topical for events in 1601, which is a likely date for its composition.

He isn't. He announces in Act 1 Scene 2, that all night, whenever he has a drink, they'll fire off cannons and sound trumpets. He says it is because "this gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet's sits smiling to my heart", but surely he is being ironic, since Hamlet's accord is patently anything but gentle and unforced. What is more, we learn that this noisemaking while drinking is a custom, a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance according to Hamlet (probably because it seems to be a custom Claudius likes--he does it again in Act 5), but a custom nevertheless. It does not appear to be a particular celebration, just a customary way of having a booze-up.

1. The death of Polonius

2. Hamlet's madness and exile

3. Popular unrest

4. Ophelia's madness

5. Laertes' return from France and attempt to take over the kingdom.

He speaks to the ghost of his father, which she cannot see.

It prefigures the difficulty in Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia. Hamlet is figuring out that she cannot be trusted to keep his secrets or to understand the complexities of his situation. That is why he gives her a long hard look (as if he would draw her) but yet says nothing. Ophelia's tragedy is that she does not have the ability to plan her way through the dangerous world of the Danish court. Laertes knows she is weak-willed and advises her and then disappears to France. Polonius gives her a bunch of advice and then uses her shamefully. Hamlet pushes her away. They all abandon her which leads to madness and death.

In his soliloquy "How all occasions inform against me", Hamlet considers the soldiers in Fortinbras's army, who have gone off to fight in a pointless war over a piece of land too small to build a graveyard to bury the dead that will fight over it. Even though their mission is pointless, it is honourable so they "go to their graves like beds"

If they can have the courage to do their duty, even in a silly cause, then why, Hamlet asks himself, "do I live to say 'this thing's to do' sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do't"?

If there was a simple answer to this, everyone would have forgotten about the play long ago. Here are some suggestions.

1. Hamlet has a defective character, in that he is indecisive which does not change or alter during the play and which prevents him from carrying out his revenge. Sort of hard to reconcile with his decisiveness during the pirate attack and in the Closet Scene.

2. Hamlet loves his mother too much and is secretly jealous of his stepfather. He would have approached the matter more sensibly had he not had this Oedipal problem. This problem is apparent before he even hears about the ghost, in his "O that this too too solid flesh" speech.

3. Hamlet is a man caught between the medieval duty of revenge and the modern sensibility that such behaviour leads to chaos. Torn between these poles, he sometimes acts like a medieval man and sometimes like a modern man.

4. Hamlet is actually insane and delusional. He has projected his hatred of the king into the mouth of the ghost. The fact that Claudius did actually kill Hamlet's father is a coincidence.

5. Hamlet's problems all come from Claudius. He is the villain of the piece, and caused the problems by killing Hamlet Sr., then by planting spies on Hamlet (including Polonius who is killed because he is a spy), then by sending Hamlet to England, and finally by arranging the fencing match with Laertes. Hamlet is thrown that way and this while trying to dodge these constant attacks.

The ghost is not exactly in Hell; he is in Purgatory, and will eventually get to Heaven. But he is in Purgatory because he died without making confession and therefore had unforgiven sins which need to be "purged". (This is the Roman Catholic position). This will become significant later in the play when Hamlet has a chance to get revenge on Claudius, but hesitates because Claudius appears to be praying and Hamlet worries if he dies now he will not go to Purgatory like his father. (Curiously, this is NOT the Roman Catholic position, since absolution has to come from a priest in that doctrine.)