FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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He pays a group of thugs to beat them and leave them for dead.
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He offers them money and reminds them that the three of them used to be friends. He asks them to stay with him.
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He arranged for them to be kidnapped and taken to Poland.
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He replaced their letters (which called for Hamlet’s execution) with letters which called for their executions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Claudius sends Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern to England with a letter for the King to condemn Hamlet to death. Hamlet tricks the pair by replacing his name on the death sentence with theirs, and the two are killed by the end of the play.
Detailed explanation-2: -He sealed the letters with his father’s State Seal, which he carried in his purse. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do not know that Hamlet has replaced the letters, and thus, according to Hamlet, their demise will be due to their own actions in delivering the letters to the English king.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did Hamlet see to it that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be put to death instead of himself? Did he feel guilty about that? he rewrote the letters in his fancy handwriting and used his seal. He doesn’t feel guilty about it one bit because they were bringing him to his death.
Detailed explanation-4: -He calls Rosencrantz a “sponge . . . that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities, ” and warns him that “when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again” (IV. ii.
Detailed explanation-5: -Summary: Hamlet tells Horatio that he’s aware of Claudius’s plot. As it turns out, Hamlet had Claudius’s letters calling for the death of Hamlet altered so that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be killed upon their arrival in England.