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    Hamlet summary

    On a dark winter night, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark.
    Discovered first by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost resembles the
    recently deceased King Hamlet, whose brother Claudius has inherited the throne and married
    the king’s widow, Queen Gertrude. When Horatio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet,
    the son of Gertrude and the dead king, to see the ghost, it speaks to him, declaring ominously
    that it is indeed his father’s spirit, and that he was murdered by none other than Claudius.
    Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge on the man who usurped his throne and married his wife,
    the ghost disappears with the dawn.

    Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’s death, but, because he is
    contemplative and thoughtful by nature, he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even
    apparent madness. Claudius and Gertrude worry about the prince’s erratic behavior and
    attempt to discover its cause. They employ a pair of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and
    Guildenstern, to watch him. When Polonius, the pompous Lord Chamberlain, suggests that
    Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in
    conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love
    Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban marriages.

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