Act 4, Scene 2

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What happens?

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to find out what Hamlet has done with Polonius’s Hamlet

  • Hamlet mocks them and refuses to cooperate - written in prose (antic disposition)

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“Sponge”

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern absorb the word of the King, gullible

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“Body is with his king, but the king is not with the body. The ghost is a thing”

Old Hamlet (body vs ghost). Body is in the palace.

Kingship is a lifestyle, rather than a crown on the head

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Short scenes

Falling action of the play, fast paced