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Act 2, Scene 1 - summary

Polonius sends money to his son Laertes, and Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet is behaving strangely.

Act 2, Scene 2 - Claudius becomes suspicious

Act II, Scene 2:

 King Claudius and Queen Gertrude greet Hamlet’s old school friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 

Increasingly distressed by Hamlet’s odd behavior, the king and queen have invited his friends to the castle in the hopes that they will be able to uncover the cause of Hamlet’s madness.

Fragment Act 2, Scene 2

 lines 405-584

 Act 3, Scene 1 - Hamlet's turmoil

Act 3, Scene 2 - The play

Act 3, Scene 3 - Claudius's plotting

Act 3, Scene 4- The closet scene 

Act 4, Scene 1 - Summary

Gertrude tells Claudius about the murder of Polonius, and Claudius determines that they must ship Hamlet off to England immediately. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent to find Hamlet.

Act 4, Scene 2 - Hamlet is banished

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Act 4, Scene 3 - Summary

Claudius questions Hamlet until Hamlet reveals the location of Polonius’s body. Claudius sends Hamlet away to England, accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and with secret orders for Hamlet to be put to death when he arrives.

Act 4, Scene 4 - Summary

Hamlet encounters Fortinbras, a Norwegian prince leading an army into Poland to fight over a patch of land. Hamlet marvels that men will fight and kill over nothing, and yet he has failed to kill Claudius over a significant matter.

Act 4, Scene 5 - Summary

Ophelia goes mad over the death of Polonius, and Laertes returns from France, looking for revenge. Claudius convices Laertes to seek revenge on the right person.

Act 4, Scene 6 - Two bereaved sons return

Act 5 Scene 1 - summary

Hamlet and Horatio wait in a graveyard when Ophelia’s funeral procession arrives. Hamlet and Laertes fight in Ophelia’s grave until they are pulled apart.

Yorick

The skull of Yorick, the former jester of Hamlet’s late father, represents the inevitability of death and the existential meaninglessness of life in light of this fact.

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Act 5 Scene 2 - The tragic climax

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, most quoted and longest play, written c1599 - 1602 and rewritten throughout his lifetime. It is the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, encouraged by his father's ghost to take revenge on his uncle who murdered him, and is set at the court of Elsinore. In soliloquies, the Prince reveals his inner self to the audience while concealing his thoughts from all at the Danish court, who presume him insane. Shakespeare gives him lines such as 'to be or not to be,' 'alas, poor Yorick,' and 'frailty thy name is woman', which are known even to those who have never seen or read the play. And Hamlet has become the defining role for actors, men and women, who want to show their mastery of Shakespeare's work.

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What is a similarity between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet?

1. Both are comedies
2. Both are tragedies
3. Both are histories
4. Both have a play-within-the-play