GL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Gravedigger, Slut, Kronborg
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Denmark on high alert for possible war with norway (fortinbras) Ghost is spotted on a platform at elsinore castle in denmark. Claudius sends ambassadors to norway to urge the king of norway to restrain young fortinbras. The king & queen don"t understand why hamlet still mourns his father"s death. Soliloquy:hamlet doesn"t like gertrude marrying claudius so soon. Laertes warns ophelia not to fall in love with young hamlet; she will only be hurt. Polonius tells ophelia to stay away from hamlet. King tells hamlet he was poisoned by claudius & to avenge his death but don"t punish gertrude for remarrying; it is not hamlet"s place and her conscience and heaven will judge her Hamlet swears horatio and marcellus to silence over hamlet meeting the ghost. Polonius tells reynaldo to spy on laertes in paris. Hamlet went to ophelia studied her face and promptly left -ophelia"s scared. Gertrude says that only fathers death and her remarriage could be upsetting hamlet.
