Month: October 2015
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Act 4 Scene 1-5
Act 4 Scene 1: After the conversation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, who is talking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. She asks to speak alone, so both of hamlets friends leave. When both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit she tells Claudius about the encounter that she had with Hamlet. She says that he is as mad…
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Act 3 Scene 4 summary
In the queens bedroom, both the queen and polonius are waiting for hamlet to arrive. Polonius tells the queen to be honest and blunt to hamlet, to tell him that the pranks he has done have been too troublesome, and that the king has taken too much heat from them. The queen agrees to do…
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Act 3 Scene 3
Claudius speaks to Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play. He tells them that he wants to send Hamlet to England and asks them to escort Hamlet there immediately, Claudius is doing this because he is finding hamlets madness to be dangerous to him and cannot endure it. They agree to do this and…
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Act 3 Scene 2 summary
In the same evening as the last scene, the castle hall is now a theater Hamlet lectures the players on how to play the parts he has written and given to them He tells player one to read the lines musically and smoothly, to not exaggerate anything and to not be over the top, but…
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Act 3 Scene 1
Claudius and gertrude start off the scene talking to Rosencrantz and Guildernstern about Hamlets madness(and depression). Hamlets friends say that have been unable to find out the cause of , although they do know he is slightly mad.They also tell the King and Queen of the enthusiasm for the actors. The king agrees to watch…
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Act 2 Scene 2 summary ( not finished)
Claudius and Gertrude (the queen) welcome two of Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern. This is because the King and queen are increasingly concerned with Hamlets behavior and the way he is dealing with his fathers death. They have been summoned to Elsinore in order to try and cheer him out of the depressed state he…
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Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 1 scene summaries
Act 1 scene 5: This scene takes place after midnight and directly after the previous scene (Act 1 Scene 4). Hamlet gets to speak to the ghost of his father, in the darkness of the early morning. ” I am thy fathers spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night and for the…