FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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his uncle.
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King Claudius.
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King Hamlet.
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his brother.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ghost of Hamlet’s father is a character from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In the stage directions he is referred to as “Ghost". His name is also Hamlet, and he is referred to as King Hamlet to distinguish him from the Prince, his son and the protagonist of the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ghost tells Hamlet a tale of horror. Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius. Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is already unsure of what to believe and what to do, and the tension of his uncertainty comes out in sprawling wordplay that makes him seem already slightly mad, calling the ghost names such as “truepenny” and “old mole” as it rumbles, “Swear, ” from beneath the ground (I.v.152, I.v.164).
Detailed explanation-4: -The guards bring Horatio, a good friend of Prince Hamlet (son of the aforementioned king), to show him what they have been seeing: a ghostly apparition. Horatio is shocked by the ghost’s resemblance to the king and decides to tell Prince Hamlet about it.