Answer: the death of his brother
King Claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Prince Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his brother with poison and then marrying the late king s widow. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain Feng who appears in …
“Lycidas” (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) is a poem by John Milton written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago dedicated to the memory of Edward King friend of Milton’s at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The poem is 193 lines in length and is …
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Hamlet jokes with Claudius about where he has hidden Polonius’s body and the king fearing for his life sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to accompany Hamlet to England with a sealed letter to the English king requesting that Hamlet be executed immediately. Unhinged by grief at Polonius’s death Ophelia wanders Elsinore.
Role in the play. Gertrude is first seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as she tries to cheer Hamlet over the loss of his father begging him to stay at home rather than going back to school in Wittenberg.Her worry over him continues into the second act as she sides with King Claudius in sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to raise the spirits of her son. Also rather than ascribing Hamlet’s sudden …
Fortinbras / ˈ f ɔːr t ɪ n b r æ s / is either of two minor fictional characters from William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet.The more notable is a Norwegian crown prince with a few brief scenes in the play who delivers the final lines that represent a hopeful future for the monarchy of Denmark and its subjects. Fo…