... an immediate consequence. Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, his favorite spies who are next up to the throne, with letters for Hamlet's death with Hamlet to England. They detail instructions to the English King to kill Hamlet. Hamlet changes these notes to ask the English King to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Their deaths were also not necessary, but they served the purpose of ... keeping Hamlet alive to continue his revenge for Lord Hamlet. Also, they lead to Claudius discovering that Hamlet knows that Claudius tried to have Hamlet killed. Ophelia, Polonius's daughter, ...

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... he is cold and tired from the many hours of guarding the castle. Soon after, another watchman named Marcellus joins Bernardo and also Heratio, who is a friend of the prince Hamlet. Bernardo and Marcellus want Heratio to stay on guard with them because they feel that they have something shocking to show him, the ghost of the recently passed away King ... be his father's spirit. The ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his death. The ghost states that he was killed by ear poison when Claudius dumped some in his ear while he was sleeping. ACT 2 SCENE 1 Characters: Polonius, Ophelia, Reynaldo Setti...

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... Horatio what really happened on the way to England. (He stole the letters that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were taking to the King of England, which instructed the king to kill Hamlet. Hamlet, our hero, immediately wrote out several new letters and sealed them using his signet. The new letters ordered that the two men accompanying him should be put to death). This ... Laertes. Both have been poisoned. As Laertes is dying he tells Hamlet about the poison and blames Claudius. Hamlet is now aware of everything. Hamlet kills the Claudius, finally avenging his father's death! Next Hamlet re...

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The revenge tragedy became a popular genre of drama in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The revenge tragedy genre was based off the work of the Roman playwright, Seneca. The first well known revenge tragedy was "The Spanish Tragedy," by Thomas Kyd, which was first performed around 1592. It is often considered the inspiration for William Shakespeare's most famous revenge tragedy, "Hamlet." Kyd's play predates Shakespeare's by at least six years if not longer as the exact publishing and performance dates for each are not absolutely certain. It is therefore plausible...

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... been successful, he would have stayed safe at home, away from the dangers of war. The idea of feigning madness is also apparent throughout Shakespeare's Hamlet. The tragic character puts on an act after he is told of his father's murder, perhaps to have something on which he can place the ... capture the attention of certain characters so that he may find out exactly what has gone "rotten in Denmark." Though it sounds like a crazy idea, Hamlet is feigning madness in Shakespear's tragic play. It is certainly understandable for someone who has just lost their father, and gained a stepfath...

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