FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Laertes
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The Ghost
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Marcellus
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Claudius
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Detailed explanation-1: -"O Gertrude, Gertrude/When sorrows come, they come not in single spies/But in battalions.” Hyperdramatically, he concludes his litany of sufferings they have all had to bear by saying, “O my dear Gertrude, this, /Like to a murdering-piece, in many places/Gives me superfluous death.” No one suffers more than Claudius .
Detailed explanation-2: -"When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” (Claudius, Hamlet Act IV, Scene V). All of life is in Shakespeare.
Detailed explanation-3: -The quote “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” was used by Claudius in Shakespeare play, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V. Claudius meant that, when bad incidents occur, they do not happen alone and many other bad happenings occur simultaneously to contribute to human tragedy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Synopsis: Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet, to spy on him. When Hamlet himself enters, he is confronted first by Polonius and then by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whom he quickly identifies as Claudius’s spies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Claudius rises and declares that he has been unable to pray sincerely: “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below” (III. iii. 96).