Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hamlet
- Act I
- It's a cold night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle
- Bernardo takes over from Francisco, and he's joined by Horatio (Hamlet's best friend)
- They tell Horatio they've seen a ghost of the dead King Hamlet
- Hamlet decides to go see the Ghost himself
- Laertes is returning to France while Hamlet couts Ophelia.
Polonius and Laertes fear he is not genuine about her
- The Ghost lures Hamlet to a private place
and tells him that Claudius murdered
him/his father. Hamlet vows to avenge him
- Act II
- Orphelia worries about Hamlet, and tells
Polonius that he ran in her room to stare at
her silently
- Polonius takes it that he is ecstatically in love and
tells her not to worry
- Claudius sends two men to
watch Hamlet, as he's concerned
about his erratic behaviour
- Hamlet realises they are there to spy on him, and sends them away
- When the troupe of actors
arrive, Hamlet arranges for them
to put on a play depicting the
King's death
- Act III
- Claudius listens to Ophelia
and Hamlet speaking, as he
contemplates suicide
- Hamlet rejects Ophelia
- During the play,
Hamlet takes
Claudius leaving
as an admission
of guilt
- While in Gertrude's closet arguing, Polonius fears for the Queen's safety
and leaps out. Hamlet stabs him, thinking it was Claudius
- Claudius sends him on a one-way trip
to England, where he hopes he'll meet
his death
- While arguing over Polonius' death, the
Ghost enters and Hamlet's
communication with him convinces all he
is truly mad.
- Act IV
- Gertrude and Claudius speak of Hamlet's madness, and sending him away.
- Hamlet refuses to give the location of Polonius' body away, although eventually does
- Hamlet learns he is to go to England, and reminds himself of his vow to
avenge his father's death
- Ophelia wanders the castle with flowers, singing and deluded.
Laertes returns from France to comfort her
- Claudius convinces Laertes it's Hamlet's fault, but
news arrives that he is alive and returning to Denmark
- They concoct a plan to murder Hamlet using poison
and a poisoned sword, in an 'accident' during a fencing
match
- Ophelia drowns herself
- Act V
- Gravediggers discuss Ophelia's suicide, and the funeral procession
arrives as Hamlet converses with them
- Distraught at the lack of ceremony and Hamlet's outburst of love, Laertes and
Hamlet fight in the grave
- During the fencing match, Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned wine. She cries she's been
poisoned before dying.
- Laertes strikes Hamlet with the poisoned sword and Hamlet uses the poisoned sword against him.
- Laertes reveals the plot as they die, and Hamlet forces Claudius to drink and be cut, to ensure he dies and his father is avenged
- Horatio goes to kill himself, but Hamlet stops him so someone can live to tell the story