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Hamlet meets up with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who ask him what he has done with the body, he tells them he disposed of it but not where. Hamlet gets angry at his two friends for working with the king. He feigns that the king is only using them, but in the end he lets them…

The Queen rushes to tell the king about her confrontation with Hamlet and she asks to speak to him alone. Once the others leave she tells him that Hamlet is extremely crazy and that he killed Polonius. Claudius becomes frightened at the fact that if he was there he probably would have been killed. He…

Polonius and the Queen converse about the plan for Polonius to hide behind the tapestry and listen into the discussion. Hamlet abruptly enters and begins throwing accusations and insults at his mother. He becomes so aggressive that she fears for her life and calls out for help, this then provokes Polonius to also call out…

Claudius talks with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Hamlet’s madness after being exposed by Hamlet’s play. He decides to tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to escort Hamlet to England. Polonius enters and tells the king that he is going to hide in the kings room to listen in to Hamlet’s conversation with his mother. He exits and…

The King and Queen converse with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about their discoveries of Hamlets mental state. They stay reasonably loyal to Hamlet by only saying that he was sad but they were unable to find the cause of this. They tell them that Hamlet is very keen to put on this play. Everyone apart from…

The King and Queen enter with two of Hamlet’s friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who he requests to observe Hamlet. They reluctantly except knowing that they dont really have a choice. They leave and Polonius enters with a theory as to why Hamlet has become mad. He believes that Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is the reason…

Polonius meets with his servant reynaldo to get him to go and spy on Laerres who is currently in Paris. Ophelia then enters and tell Polonius about a visit from Hamlet where he was a wreck and had filthy clothes and seemed very drunk.

This scene involves Hamlet on the outer walls of the castle after following the ghost of his father. He soon reveals to him that desoite people believing he was killed by a snake bite in reality the king and his brother Claudius killed him in his sleep by pouring poison in his ear. He pleads…

The scene opens with Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus waiting at the place where the sentinels usually keep watch for the ghost. They start off joking and drinking and they question eachother wether it was normal to drink so much and make so much noise. Then all of a sudden the ghost enters the scene. Hamlet…