FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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A formal feast
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Danish Delacacies
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Funeral Leftovers
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Swine food
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet’s saying sarcastically that the wedding took place so soon after the funeral, the leftover baked meats from the memorial service could be served as cold cuts at the wedding reception.
Detailed explanation-2: -We know from the speech in Act One, Scene Two of Hamlet, that two months have passed between the death of old Hamlet and the events of the play, with Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius taking place “within a month” (I. ii. 145) of that death.
Detailed explanation-3: -A funeral procession approaches. Hamlet soon realizes that the corpse is Ophelia’s. When Laertes in his grief leaps into her grave and curses Hamlet as the cause of Ophelia’s death, Hamlet comes forward. He and Laertes struggle, with Hamlet protesting his own love and grief for Ophelia.
Detailed explanation-4: -What do Laertes and Hamlet do at the funeral? They fight; Hamlet is upset because he thinks he loved Ophelia more than Laertes did. Act Five, Scene Two 88.