FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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The ghost
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Horatio
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Hamlet
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Marcellus
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Detailed explanation-1: -A line spoken by Marcellus in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act I, scene iv.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ghost appears and beckons Hamlet, who follows it. They all tell him not to go but he insists and threatens them with violence if they try and stop him. While he is away, one of the officers, Marcellus, commenting on what the ghost’s appearance may mean, observes, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio: Heaven will direct it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
Detailed explanation-5: -Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. That one may smile and smile and be a villain. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.