ENGL1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eaves, Wage War, Purgatory
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Bernardo relieves francisco of his sentinel duty; horation and marcellus join. Marcellus and bernardo have previously seen a ghost and want to convince horatio that the ghost is real. The ghost appears and seems to look like that late king hamlet in war attire. The recent history of denmark is chronicled by. The court appears before king claudius, and he announces that he is going to balance the solemn event of his brother"s death with the joyful marriage between him and queen gertrude. Hamlet appears to be still grieving his father. Hamlet wants to return to wittenberg, but claudius and gertrude make/convince him to stay in elsinore. Horatio and marcellus appear after the court has ended and tell. Hamlet about the ghost of his dead father, and he agrees to join them on the night"s watch: act 1 scene 3. Laertes is preparing to return to france, and says goodbye to his sister ophelia.