With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, He smote the sledded ⌜Polacks ⌝ on the ice. So frowned he once when, in an angry parle, Had made his course t’ illume that part of heavenĤ5 Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole With us to watch the minutes of this night, What, has this thing appeared again tonight?ģ0 Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us. Give you good night.Ģ5 Welcome, Horatio.-Welcome, good Marcellus. ⟩ Who hath relievedīarnardo hath my place. Then first Laertes and then Hamlet die, both victims of Laertes’ rapier.
At the match, Claudius prepares poisoned wine for Hamlet, which Gertrude unknowingly drinks as she dies, she accuses Claudius, whom Hamlet kills. Hamlet, who has returned safely to confront the king, agrees to a fencing match with Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, who secretly poisons his own rapier. Claudius sends Hamlet away as part of a deadly plot.Īfter Polonius’s death, Ophelia goes mad and later drowns. Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. To confirm Claudius’s guilt, Hamlet arranges for a play that mimics the murder Claudius’s reaction is that of a guilty man. When the councilor Polonius learns from his daughter, Ophelia, that Hamlet has visited her in an apparently distracted state, Polonius attributes the prince’s condition to lovesickness, and he sets a trap for Hamlet using Ophelia as bait. When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlet’s father, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king.Ī spirit who claims to be the ghost of Hamlet’s father describes his murder at the hands of Claudius and demands that Hamlet avenge the killing. Events before the start of Hamlet set the stage for tragedy.
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