📖💀Hamlet settings💀📖

Where is 1.1 set?

Gun platform of Elsinore Castle

Where is 1.2 set?

Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Where is 1.3 set?

Private room in Elsinore

Where is 1.4 set?

Gun platform of Elsinore Castle

Where is 1.5 set?

The walls of Elsinore Castle

Where is 2.1 set?

A state room in Elsinore castle

Where is 2.2 set?

The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Where is 3.1 set?

The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Where is 3.2 set?

The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Where is 3.3 set?

The King’s private chapel

Where is 3.4 set?

Gertrude’s private room

Where is 4.1 set?

Gertrude’s private room

Where is 4.2 set?

A corridor in the castle

Where is 4.3 set?

A state room in Elsinore Castle

Where is 4.4 set?

The coast near Elsinore

Where is 4.5 set?

The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Where is 4.6 set?

A room in the castle

Where is 4.7 set?

A state room in the castle

Where is 5.1 set?

A graveyard near the castle

Where is 5.2 set?

The Great Hall of Elsinore Castle

Key moments 1.1

• Horatio, Barnardo and Marcellus wait for the Ghost.

• The Ghost appears in Old Hamlet’s armour but won’t speak.

• Horatio decides Hamlet must be told.

Key moments 1.2

• Claudius thanks the court for supporting marriage, sends ambassadors to Norway.

• He allows Laertes to return to France but refuses Hamlet’s return to Wittenberg.

• Hamlet laments his mother’s hasty marriage. (1st soliloquy)

• Horatio and Marcellus tell Hamlet about the Ghost; he agrees to join them.

Key moments 1.3

• Laertes warns Ophelia not to trust Hamlet’s love.

• Polonius gives Laertes precepts before he leaves for Paris.

• Polonius echoes Laertes’ warnings to Ophelia

Key moments 1.4

• Hamlet reflects on how one flaw can corrupt a person.

• The Ghost appears; Hamlet’s friends try to restrain him.

• Hamlet follows the Ghost, threatens to kill H/M

Key moments 1.5

• The Ghost reveals he was murdered by Claudius.

• He commands Hamlet to avenge him but spare Gertrude.

• Hamlet vows to ‘remember’ and swears the others to secrecy about antic disposition

Key moments 2.1

• Polonius sends Reynaldo to spy on Laertes.

• Ophelia reports Hamlet’s disturbing behaviour.

• Polonius assumes Hamlet is mad from love and goes to tell Claudius.

Key moments 2.2

• Claudius and Gertrude recruit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet.

• News arrives that Fortinbras has been redirected to attack Poland.

• Polonius informs Gertrude that Hamlet is mad for Ophelia and, proposes to spy on Hamlet and Ophelia

• Hamlet mocks Polonius and exposes R&G as spies.

• Hamlet asks the Players to perform The Murder of Gonzago to test Claudius, reflects on emotion of players (2nd soliloquy)

Key moments 3.1

• R&G fail to explain Hamlet’s behaviour.

• Claudius and Polonius spy on Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy.

• Hamlet rejects Ophelia and rails against women.

• Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England.

Key moments 3.2

• Hamlet instructs the actors and asks Horatio to watch Claudius.

• The play mirrors Old Hamlet’s murder; Claudius storms out.

• Hamlet celebrates the proof of guilt.

• R&G summon Hamlet to Gertrude; Hamlet mocks them.

• Hamlet vows to confront Gertrude but not harm her.

Key moments 3.3

• Claudius orders Hamlet’s trip to England.

• Alone, he tries to pray and admits guilt.

• Hamlet sees him but refuses to kill him while praying.

Key moments 3.4

• Hamlet confronts Gertrude; she fears for her life.

• Hamlet kills Polonius behind the curtain.

• The Ghost reminds Hamlet of his mission.

• Hamlet urges Gertrude to reject Claudius and keep his feigned madness secret.

Key moments 4.1

• Gertrude tells Claudius Hamlet killed Polonius in his madness

• Claudius fears blame and sends R&G to find Hamlet and the body.

key moments 4.2

• Hamlet refuses to reveal Polonius’ body’s location.

• He mocks R&G for serving the King.

Key moments 4.3

• Hamlet riddles about death and reveals the body’s location.

• Claudius sends him to England, secretly planning his death.

Key moments 4.4

• Hamlet meets Fortinbras’ army.

• In a soliloquy, he criticises his own inaction and resolves to act.

key moments 4.5

• Ophelia enters, mad and singing about death.

• Laertes returns, furious, and confronts Claudius.

• Ophelia’s madness devastates Laertes.

Key moments 4.6

Horatio receives Hamlet’s letter explaining his capture by pirates.

• R+G continued to England

Key moments 4.7

• Claudius manipulates Laertes into plotting Hamlet’s death after recieving letter announcing H’s return

• They plan a poisoned sword and a poisoned chalice

• Gertrude announces Ophelia has drowned.

Key moments 5.1

• Gravediggers joke as they dig Ophelia’s grave - question xian burial.

• Hamlet reflects on mortality and Yorick’s skull.

• Hamlet and Laertes fight in Ophelia’s grave.

Key moments 5.2

• Hamlet explains how he escaped and doomed R&G.

• Osric invites Hamlet to fence Laertes; Hamlet agrees.

• Gertrude drinks the poisoned cup.

• Laertes and Hamlet wound each other with the poisoned blade.

• Hamlet kills Claudius; Laertes confesses the plot.

• Hamlet dies after naming Fortinbras as successor.

• Fortinbras arrives and orders a military funeral.