FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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One year
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A decade
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Less than 2 months
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3 years
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Gertrude marries Claudius two months after the death of her husband. Hamlet believes that is too short for mourning and his famous charge forms in this context: “Frailty, thy name is woman.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The extent of the time of Hamlet from the beginning to the end of the tragedy is between two and three months. Nearly the whole of this period-more than two months of it, in fact-is included in an interval which occurs between the close of Act I.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of Act 1, Hamlet finds out that his father is murdered. In Act 2, he says it has been two months since his death, so we can conclude that the time between Act I and Act II, has been around two months.