Gertrude and Hamlet fight about his dead father, and Hamlet gets so passionate that Gertrude fears he will kill her. Hamlet almost kills him right there, but worries Claudius’s soul would go to heaven if he were murdered in while praying. On his way to his mother’s room, Hamlet passes Claudius praying. Gertrude watched the play with her husband and realizes that she must do what she has been avoiding: talk to her son one-on-one. Hamlet takes this as proof of what the ghost told him and from this moment on is ready to kill Claudius for revenge.
The players perform for the court, and at the moment when the king-character is murdered by the king’s brother-character, Claudius rises in a rage and storms out of the room. The players arrive and, always a fan of theater, Hamlet devises a plot for the players to put on a play that mirrors the murder of his father. They have a tearful parting as Hamlet tries to save her from Denmark’s rotten state. Hamlet becomes enraged and rants and rails about the spies to Ophelia, making it sound like it’s about her. Ophelia begins by trying to heed her father’s commands, but warns Hamlet of where her father and the king hide. Hamlet contemplates life and death before noticing Ophelia. Polonius, still convinced of Hamlet’s madness as a result of his love for Ophelia, sends his daughter into a chamber where he knows Hamlet will be and hides himself with Claudius to eavesdrop on their conversation. However, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern brought a company of actors along with them hoping to cheer Hamlet up. Hamlet, wary of deceit in Elsinore, sees immediately through his old friends having been summoned and doesn’t open up to them like his mother planned.
Trying to help her son, Gertrude calls Hamlet’s two old friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to Elsinore to try to uncover the cause of the madness from Hamlet himself. In actuality, Ophelia has done no such thing and helps Hamlet to spread the word of his “madness.” Polonius shows the royal couple a love letter Hamlet wrote to Ophelia, which convinces Gertrude and Claudius of this. Polonius, on the other hand, believes it is because Ophelia has followed his command and refused to see Hamlet. Gertrude blames his madness on her sudden marriage to Claudius. Hamlet feigns madness in front of Claudius, Polonius, and his own mother. Claudius does what he can to keep a tremulous peace between the two nations. Denmark has a long history with Norway and the old King Hamlet killed the old King Norway, leaving Prince Fortinbras of Norway angry and vengeful. Meanwhile, Norwegian powers encroach on Denmark’s land. Polonius overhears and orders his daughter not to see her love any more. On his way out, Laertes warns Ophelia not to get too involved with Hamlet as he is unlikely to marry her. Ophelia’s only other friend at Elsinore, her brother Laertes, leaves to go to school in France. Ophelia’s father is Claudius’ most trusted advisor, Polonius, who keeps his daughter under strict control.
The love of Hamlet’s life is a woman named Ophelia, who shares his wit and desire for truth and authenticity. Hamlet tells Horatio his plan of putting on an “antic disposition” in order to confuse the nosey Elsinore court as to his motives. Shaken to the core, Hamlet vows to seek the truth and revenge for his late father. Sure enough, the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears and tells young Hamlet that he was murdered by own brother. Hamlet is told by his best friend, Horatio, that the ghost of his father has been seen on the Elsinore Castle walls, and Hamlet goes with Horatio to see for himself. King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius, has been elected as king and married King Hamlet’s wife, Gertrude. Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, has died suddenly. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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