Scene Index: Links to the scenes of the play, with short summaries of each scene. Search Engine: Search all of the Hamlet Navigator site. Notable Quotes in Hamlet: Each quote is briefly explained and linked to the text, so you can see the quote in context. ...
by the Royal Shakespeare Company in a main-stage production and then the good news: “oh wear different hats so that the audience know who you are playing.” Still, he seems to take it in good spirit. We are joined by the King who has slipped on to the balcony for an inter-scene ...
by the Royal Shakespeare Company in a main-stage production and then the good news: “oh wear different hats so that the audience know who you are playing.” Still, he seems to take it in good spirit. We are joined by the King who has slipped on to the balcony for an inter-scene ...
Hamlet: Forbes-Robertson, JohnstonHamlet berates himself: “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” (Hamlet, Act II, scene 2, line 550), performed by Johnston Forbes-Robertson; from a 1928 recording. Hamlet contrives a plan to test the ghost’s accusation. With a group of visiting ...
During the performance ofThe Murder of Gonzago, Claudius stops the action just after the scene in which poison is poured into the king's ear. Hamlet tells Horatio he is now certain that Claudius murdered his father. In the next scene, Claudius attempts to pray in church, but his guilt pr...
pleasure in the exposure of Claudius’ guilt by theatrical means, relishing the self-referential potential of the scenario, exploring the multiple forms of drama capable of representing the same action (the dumb show versus the spoken verses), and filling the whole scene with London theatrical in...
Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy: Original Text, Summary & Analysis Hamlet's "To Be, or Not to Be" Soliloquy and Summary Hamlet's First Soliloquy, Act 1, Scene 2: Text, Summary, Analysis Synopsis and Analysis of All 7 Soliloquies in "Hamlet"...
: Act 1, Scene 3 Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA, his sister.LAERTES 1. My necessaries are embark'd: i.e., my luggage is on board the ship. 2-4. as the winds give benefit ... you: i.e., whenever the winds are blowing in the right direction and there is a means to send a ...
ACT I SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle. [FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO] BERNARDO Who's there? FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. BERNARDO Long live the king! FRANCISCO Bernardo? BERNARDO He. FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour....
conjectural ingenuity of critics; and, as we are always loth to suppose that the cause of defective apprehension is in ourselves, the mystery has been too commonly explained by the very easy process of setting it down as in fact inexplicable, and by re...