Answer: He will appear guilty
Claudius is seen at the beginning of the play to be a capable monarch as he deals diplomatically with such issues as the military threat from Norway and Hamlet’s depression. It is not until the appearance of King Hamlet’s Ghost in the courtyard that the reader questions his motives. During the play’s progression he takes a turn for the worse by first resorting to spying and when that fails murder. It is in Act III Scene 3 when Claudius forestalls Hamlet’s revenge by confessing his sins to God in his o…
Prince Hamlet is the title role and protagonist of William Shakespeare’s c. 1600 tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of King Hamlet the previous king of Denmark. At the beginning of the play he struggles with whether and how to avenge the murder of his father and struggles with his own sanity along the way. By the end of the tragedy Hamlet has caused the deaths of Polonius Laertes Claudius and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern two acquaintances of his fro…
His reaction convinces Claudius that Hamlet is not mad for love. Shortly thereafter the court assembles to watch the play Hamlet has commissioned. After seeing the Player King murdered by his rival pouring poison in his ear Claudius abruptly rises and runs from the room; for …
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From its premiere at the turn of the 17th century Hamlet has remained Shakespeare’s best-known most-imitated and most-analyzed play . The character of Hamlet played a critical role in Sigmund Freud’s explanation of the Oedipus complex. Even within the narrower field of literature the play …
Gilbert himself took the role of Claudius in a 1904 production of his play . Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) tells…