Hamlet, however, has found his element in Act Two. His language is dazzling, full of wild puns, inventive jokes, and succinct and strong observations – sheer mastery. His repartee with Polonius, for instance, plays brilliantly with the notion of “method in madness” (as Polonius puts it)....
Claudius has summoned Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet. He and Queen Gertrude feel that they can discover the cause of the Prince's apparent madness and send them to spy on him. They leave and Polonius enters. He reports that the ambassadors, sent to Norway, have...
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Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Hamlet is engaging in some wordplay here, restating Polonius’ last lines, "The actors are come hither…upon my honour." He is sarcastically equating Polonius’ honor with his ass.
HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; 40 for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play ...
What does it tell us about Hamlet's character that he did not hesitate to kill Polonius in Scene 4, but he hesitated when he had the opportunity to kill Claudius in Act 3 Scene 3? In Hamlet, how does corruption contribute to Hamlet's melancholy? What quotes can show that ...
Scene 2 Just as the play is about to begin, Hamlet instructs the players on the art of acting, telling them to act naturally and to avoid bombast. He sets the players to their preparations and then conferences withHoratio. After complimenting Horatio in the most sterling terms, Hamlet asks...
Act II of The Black Prince covers Part 2 of Bradley Pearson's narrative. In it, Bradley moves rapidly from the initial ecstasy of his newfound love for Julian Baffin to "the pangs of disprized love" (as Prince Hamlet calls them in Hamlet, Act 3: Scene 1). Luckily for Bradley, he so...
2 of 8 Her grief at Hamlet's betrayal A man who is dead and gone The indifference of nature to human suffering The miseries of lost love What does Ophelia in her madness say that she will inform her brother about? 3 of 8 Her disobedience toward his instructions Her grief and loss The...
Read Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 5, Scene 2 summary. Learn how Claudius and Laertes die, review Horatio's promise to the prince, and find the quotes...