HAMLET

HAMLET

1. MAIN CHARACTERS

   • king hamlet
   • Queen gertrude
   • Hamlet (prince and son)
   • King Claudinus (former kings brother)

2. OTHER CHARACTERS

   • Horatio (Hamlet's friend)
   • Polonius (Chamberlain)
     • Laertes and Ophelia (his children)
   • Rosencratz & Guldenstern (studyfriends of Hamlet)

3. STORYLINE

   • The guards and Horatio see the ghost
   • Laertes and Polonius tell Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet
   • H. sees the ghost --> remember mee--> revenge
   • H. delay --> why doesn't he take revenge on the new king?
   • H meets O--> says nothing about his new findings
   • Hamlet starts feigning madness
   • R & G arrive--> they are sent by the king and queen
   • meeting between Hamlet and Opheilia is a set up --> king and Polonius are watching
   • actors perfom 'the murder of Gonzago' --> replica of the murder of the king
   • Claudinus leaves angry --> goes praying in the chapel for forgiveness
   • Hamlet can't kill him because they are in a chapel and Claudinus will go the heaven
   • Polonius spies on the meeting between the queen and Hamlet --> gets killed by Hamlet because he thinks he is the king
   • R & G leave with H to England --> H will be killed in England
   • Opheila is driven mad by her fathers dead and Hamlet's absence
   • Laertes promisses to punish responsible one for his fathers dead
   • Hamolet's ship gets attacked but the pirates spare him --> H& G are sent to England (are killed there)
   • Opheila kills herself
   • duel between Laertes and Hamlet

4. deaths in the play

   • everybody dies except Horatio
   • Horatio wants to kill himself
   • Hamlet's last words --> the rest is silence
   • H. asks horatio to spread the word about the evnets in the castle