FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Young Fortinbras
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Old King Hamlet
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Hamlet
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Claudius
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Detailed explanation-1: -King Fortinbras was slain in the play’s antecedent action in a duel with King Hamlet. The duel between the two is described by Horatio in Act One, Scene One (I, i) of the play.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Ghost vanishes, Horatio explains that King Hamlet (Prince Hamlet’s father) had slain King Fortinbras of Norway in combat and reclaimed land for Denmark.
Detailed explanation-3: -Early on we learn that Fortinbras’s father, the previous King of Norway, was killed by King Hamlet in battle some years before the events of the play.
Detailed explanation-4: -King Fortinbras of Norway challenged King Hamlet to one-to-one combat, was defeated, and forfeited his family lands.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Ghost appears to Hamlet, claiming indeed to be the ghost of his father. He tells Hamlet about how Claudius, the current King and Hamlet’s uncle, murdered him, and Hamlet swears vengeance for his father.