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On a dark winter night, aghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discoveredfirst by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghostresembles the recently deceased King Hamlet, whose brother Claudiushas inherited the throne and married the king’s widow, Queen Gertrude.
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WhenHoratio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrudeand the dead king, to see the ghost, it speaks to him, declaringominously that it is indeed his father’s spirit, and that he wasmurdered by none other than Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revengeon the man who usurped his throne and married his wife, the ghostdisappears with the dawn.Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’sdeath, but, because he is contemplative and thoughtful by nature,he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent madness. Claudiusand Gertrude worry about the prince’s erratic behavior and attemptto discover its cause. They employ a pair of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantzand Guildenstern, to watch him.
When Polonius, the pompous LordChamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter,Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with thegirl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem tolove Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares thathe wishes to ban marriages.A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamletseizes upon an idea to test his uncle’s guilt. He will have theplayers perform a scene closely resembling the sequence by whichHamlet imagines his uncle to have murdered his father, so that ifClaudius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of themurder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves theroom.
Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. Hamletgoes to kill Claudius but finds him praying.
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Since he believes thatkilling Claudius while in prayer would send Claudius’s soul to heaven,Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decidesto wait. Claudius, now frightened of Hamlet’s madness and fearingfor his own safety, orders that Hamlet be sent to England at once.Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamberPolonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behindthe tapestry, Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He drawshis sword and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. Forthis crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with Rosencrantzand Guildenstern. However, Claudius’s plan for Hamlet includes morethan banishment, as he has given Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed ordersfor the King of England demanding that Hamlet be put to death.In the aftermath of her father’s death, Ophelia goes madwith grief and drowns in the river. Polonius’s son, Laertes, whohas been staying in France, returns to Denmark in a rage.
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Claudiusconvinces him that Hamlet is to blame for his father’s and sister’sdeaths. When Horatio and the king receive letters from Hamlet indicating thatthe prince has returned to Denmark after pirates attacked his shipen route to England, Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes’ desirefor revenge to secure Hamlet’s death. Laertes will fence with Hamletin innocent sport, but Claudius will poison Laertes’ blade so thatif he draws blood, Hamlet will die. As a backup plan, the king decidesto poison a goblet, which he will give Hamlet to drink should Hamletscore the first or second hits of the match. Hamlet returns to thevicinity of Elsinore just as Ophelia’s funeral is taking place.Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that he hadin fact always loved Ophelia.
Back at the castle, he tells Horatio thathe believes one must be prepared to die, since death can come at anymoment. A foolish courtier named Osric arrives on Claudius’s ordersto arrange the fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes.The sword-fighting begins. Hamlet scores the first hit,but declines to drink from the king’s proffered goblet. Instead,Gertrude takes a drink from it and is swiftly killed by the poison.Laertes succeeds in wounding Hamlet, though Hamlet does not dieof the poison immediately.
First, Laertes is cut by his own sword’sblade, and, after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius is responsiblefor the queen’s death, he dies from the blade’s poison. Hamlet thenstabs Claudius through with the poisoned sword and forces him todrink down the rest of the poisoned wine. Claudius dies, and Hamletdies immediately after achieving his revenge.At this moment, a Norwegian prince named Fortinbras, whohas led an army to Denmark and attacked Poland earlier in the play, enterswith ambassadors from England, who report that Rosencrantz and Guildensternare dead. Fortinbras is stunned by the gruesome sight of the entireroyal family lying sprawled on the floor dead. He moves to takepower of the kingdom.
Horatio, fulfilling Hamlet’s lastrequest, tells him Hamlet’s tragic story. Fortinbras orders thatHamlet be carried away in a manner befitting a fallen soldier.
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