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Summary: Act IV, scene iii. The king speaks to a group of attendants, telling them of Polonius’s death and his intention to send Hamlet to England. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear with Hamlet, who is under guard. Pressed by Claudius to reveal the location of Polonius’s body, Hamlet is by turns inane, coy, and clever, saying that ...
Summary: Act II, scene ii. Within the castle, Claudius and Gertrude welcome Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of Hamlet’s friends from Wittenberg. Increasingly concerned about Hamlet’s erratic behavior and his apparent inability to recover from his father’s death, the king and queen have summoned his friends to Elsinore in the hope that ...
Summary: Act III, scene ii. That evening, in the castle hall now doubling as a theater, Hamlet anxiously lectures the players on how to act the parts he has written for them. Polonius shuffles by with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Hamlet dispatches them to hurry the players in their preparations. Horatio enters, and Hamlet, pleased to see ...
Exit all but Hamlet. The King welcomes "dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" (2.2.1), and immediately gets down to business. They, friends of Hamlet, are supposed to hang out with him, so that they can find out what's wrong with him. The King says that he "cannot dream of" what might be wrong with Hamlet, other than his father's death.
Analysis. After hiding Polonius ’s body, Hamlet returns to the castle and runs into Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They ask him what he’s done with the body, and Hamlet replies that he has “compounded it with dust.”. Rosencrantz asks Hamlet again where the body is, and Hamlet shouts that he’d never allow such a “sponge” to get the ...
Jun 2, 2020 · Act 4, scene 1 Gertrude reports Polonius’s death to Claudius, who sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Hamlet and recover the body. Act 4, scene 2 Hamlet refuses to tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern where he has put Polonius’s body. Act 4, scene 3 Hamlet is brought to Claudius, who tells him that he is to leave immediately for England ...
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O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count 265 myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. HAMLET. Oh God, I could be trapped inside a nutshell and consider myself a king of infinite space, if only I didn’t have bad dreams. GUILDENSTERN.
