FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Burdock
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Hebenon
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Baneberry
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Hemlock
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hebenon (or hebona) is a botanical substance described in William Shakespeare’s tragic play Hamlet. The identity and nature of the poison has been a source of speculation for centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did King Hamlet Die? The ghost of King Hamlet tells Prince Hamlet that when he was taking his regular nap in his orchard, his brother, Claudius, poured a potion into his ear. The potion was leprous distilment, a poison.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ghost of the king appears before his son, Prince Hamlet, and tells him that his own brother, now his converted stepfather, has killed him, pouring into his ear the contents of an ampoule of henbane (Act I, scene 5).
Detailed explanation-4: -Scientists have tried to find out. Hamlet’s father was poisoned by a substance poured into his ear while he slept. Juliet used a drug to fake her own death. And Titania fell in love with a man with the head of an ass after the juice of a flower was put in her eyes.
Detailed explanation-5: -The poison poured in the king’s ear by Claudius is used by the ghost to symbolize the corrosive effect of Claudius’s dishonesty on the health of Denmark. Declaring that the story that he was killed by a snake is a lie, he says that “the whole ear of Denmark” is “Rankly abused. . . .” (I.v.36–38).