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Thursday, October 16, 2014

HAMLET ACT I SCENE I

Reading Notes: Act I Scene I

  • play opens with the dialogue of Horatio, Marcellus, Bernardo, and Francisco who are guards
  • King Hamlet is dead (referred to as the ghost)
  • Horatio doesn't believe the news at first
  • "Let us impart what we have seen to-night
    Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
    This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
    Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
    As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?" - The men plan on informing Prince Hamlet about his father's death
  • the scene ends with Marcellus saying that he knows "Where we shall find him most conveniently."
    

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