Act 4, Scene 3

What happens?

• Claudius reiterates his determination to send Hamlet

• Hamlet sent in to reveal location of Polonius’s body

• Tells Hamlet that he will be sent to England

• Throughout scene, Hamlet continues his antic disposition

• After all leave, Claudius has a speech in which he admits his plan to arrange Hamlet’s murder “Do it England”

Sibillance

Control, commanding, sly

Antithesis

“Disease and cure”

“Poor and rich”

Verse

Royal, formal, no antic disposition

Rhyming couplet

Resolved ending

Personal pronoun

From Claudius, his power and personal to the King of England