FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Gertrude
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Hamlet
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Claudius
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Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -Polonius’ boast of having once played Julius Caesar in a school play may be a nod to Globe Theatre regulars as well. John Heminges (the actor many scholars believe first played Polonius) really did play the title character in Shakespeare’s own Julius Caesar, a recent hit.
Detailed explanation-2: -Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. He is chief counsellor of the play’s ultimate villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polonius, fictional character, councillor to King Claudius and the father of Ophelia and Laertes in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (written c. 1599–1601). He is especially known for his maxim-filled speech (“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”). His meddling garrulousness eventually costs him his life.
Detailed explanation-4: -It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Caesar, Edmond O’Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia. Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. John Dunning, A.C.E.
Detailed explanation-5: -(II. ii.) Polonius has a tendency to make pompous, aphoristic pronouncements, and his claim that “brevity is the soul of wit” ranks among his most famous.