Answer: killing himself
Hamlet struggles to turn his desire for revenge into action and spends a large portion of the play waiting rather than doing. Scholars have proposed numerous theories as to why he waits so long to kill Claudius. Some say that Hamlet feels for his …
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…
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Hamlet feigns madness and subtly insults Polonius all the while. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive Hamlet greets his “friends” warmly but quickly discerns that they are spies. Hamlet admits that he is upset at his situation but refuses to give the true reason instead commenting on “What a piece of work is a man”. …
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.The main setting is Denmark. The action of Stoppard’s play takes place mainly “in the wings” of Shakespeare’s with …
The Gravediggers (or Clowns) are examples of Shakespearean fools (also known as clowns or jesters) a recurring type of character in Shakespeare’s plays. Like most Shakespearean fools …