#Shakespeare hamlet free#
Hamlet calls Polonius a “fishmonger,” greets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and asks them if they were “sent for” or if “it is a free visitation.”.Fortinbras of Norway vows to keep the peace with Denmark and requests permission to march his army through Denmark to battle Poland.The King and Queen welcome Hamlet’s friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and ask them to discover what’s troubling Hamlet.Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet came to her chamber acting strangely after she “did repel his letters and denied his access.”.The ghost asks Hamlet to “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”.Hamlet goes to the battlements where the ghost appears again, claiming to be Hamlet’s dead father it tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered the King by pouring poison in his ear.Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet has “made many tenders of his affection” toward her Polonius says “do not believe his vows” and tells her to stop speaking with Hamlet.Laertes says goodbye to his sister Ophelia and gets much advice from his father before departing.
King Claudius addresses his court and grants permission for Polonius’s son Laertes to return to France, but Claudius beseeches Hamlet not to return to school in Wittenburg.Two soldiers bring Hamlet’s friend Horatio to the battlements where the ghost appears again but does not speak.The ghost of the dead king appears on the battlements twice.Prince Hamlet returns to court at Elsinore from studying at Wittenburg University.